Mark Twain had a remarkable ear for dialogue, and is fondly remembered as a one of the great observers of human nature.  In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he has created a lasting work of fiction and a ‘must-read’. 

“So we come to see Huck in the end as one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet.” -- T. S. Eliot.  

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.   It's the best book we've had." -- Ernest Hemingway.