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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

A study guide for "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," offering biographical information on the author, text analysis, character summaries, and excerpts from literary criticism.

Discusses the writing, characters, plot, and themes of the 1961 novel in which a young boy living in the Ozarks trains his two redbone hounds to be champion hunters.

Includes a brief biography of William Golding, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...