Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

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...

Violence and the breakdown of civilization are explored through the lens of Lord of the flies with a variety of perspectives presented.

Discusses the novel, "The Catcher in the Rye", including the life of J.D. Salinger, and the novel's cast of characters and themes.

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.