To me, The "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is America's greatest novel; one that should be in the curriculum of every high school student. I know of no better way to gain an understanding of what it meant to live in America in the latter half of the 19th century. Nor is there a better book which looks at 'freedom' and its meaning.
Sanford Pinskter, professor and lifelong writer on literature, in the Virginia Quarterly review, sums up his impression of the book by calling it "deeply subversive," "not because it is peppered with the N-word or even because some see racism in what is the most anti-racist book ever written in America, but because it tells the Truth- not 'mainly,' but right down to the core."
(It is evident that Huck will never be 'free,' and Jim- )