Typically, you only get Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer as a student, but this book gave me all the reason I need to respect Twain. There are certainly some Typically, you only get Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer as a student, but this book gave me all the reason I need to respect Twain. There are certainly some technical flaws in the writing, but the story is engaging and full of social commentary veiled to various extents. Where else would cross dressing be a metaphor for the fallacy of racial essentialism? As misanthropic as Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court but more focused on the immediate issue of slavery and reconstruction....more