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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Signature Performance by Elijah Wood
- Narrated by: Elijah Wood
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Signature Performance by Elijah Wood
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Publisher's Summary
Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)
Ernest Hemingway said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". One hundred years after its author’s death, this classic remains remarkably modern and poignantly relevant. In this new edition, Elijah Wood reads Huck in a youthful voice that may be the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent. His performance captures the excitement and confusion of adolescence and adventure. Best of all, the immediacy of Wood’s energetic reading sweeps listeners up and makes them feel as though they’re along for the ride, as Huck and Jim push their raft toward freedom.
Public Domain (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
What the critics say
"Elijah Wood’s performance is my nominee for the Narrators’ Hall of Fame. Wood’s unself-conscious reading doesn’t sound like a reading at all. He creates an entire world filled with people who cross class and color lines. His accents range from British to faux-British to all manner of regional affectations, twangs, and drawls. Wood’s delivery makes Mark Twain’s delicious wit and twisty language sound completely natural, especially as Huck invents plausible words to suit the moment. The journey down the Mississippi with Huck and Jim is pure pleasure, as the boy who won’t be "sivilized" and the runaway slave encounter scoundrels, slip out of scrapes, and invent outrageous tales. The listening couldn’t be better if Huck read the story himself." (AudioFile Magazine)
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- eric overbeek
- 2020-11-04
incredibly performed! obviously good book
enjoyed every minute of it. original version. if they would have "washed " it i wouldn't have listened because history is what it is and shouldn't be washed.
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- Christy
- 2021-08-23
Incredible performance by Elijah Wood
One of the best I’ve ever listened to…highly recommended…very entertaining….can’t put it down
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- Marie W
- 2024-02-01
Great Narrator
Elijah Wood did a great job with the narration Really Loved listening to this version.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-10-28
Elijah Wood brings every character alive
Hukleberry Finn is a better read than Tom Sawyer and I cannot see anyone doing a better job of reading it then Elijah Wood. He really brought the characters to life.
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- Blake Menzies
- 2022-04-28
He "got" Huck's voice..
Read this as a kid as an adventure story, and then again in school when they tried to teach us about allegory.
This reading was superbly done, Huck's "voice" was great, .. just a great reading.
and no @#$%&! mood music, or if there was I was made unaware.
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- Anonymous User
- 2024-06-27
A sparkling combo of performance and prose
The accents are so dead on and performed so authentically that it really makes Twain's prose shine. This is my first read of the book and I found it a hilarious, accurate, and pitiful sojourn into the American soul.
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- Gloria Pavey
- 2021-03-22
Surprises at every turn
I listened to this every night before bed with my 10 year old boy. There needs to be a warning about language, I had no idea the N word was in it! That led to a lesson about why the word is so bad and why we don't say it. I decided to let him continue listening to the story even though the word was so prevalent, and I think he has a more mature understanding of racism now, having heard this historical perspective. It's important that we don't forget how people used to be treated back then. I think age 10 may have been a little early for that lesson though, and I would have preferred to see a clear content warning so I could be prepared before listening.
That said, Elijah Wood did an amazing job of narrating all the characters. He really brought the story to life. And the story itself was super entertaining. We could never predict what Huck was going to think of or run into next. A great adventure.
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- Debbie
- 2021-10-21
Wonderful
I wish I would have listened 🎶 to this a long time ago.
The performance was perfect!
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- SK
- 2022-04-28
Superb narration!
The story is as charming, as is most of Twain’s work. The narration, however, is exceptional so much so that I fear other audiobooks won’t be able to hold my attention because I’ll be wondering what magic Elijah Wood could have and would have worked on the telling of the story.
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- hi
- 2019-07-09
always an adveture
very long, listened in the car with the kids, but worth it. lots of n words, has some explaining to do lol
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