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The American Novel

on Network Three

Six studies by ARTHUR MIZENER
Professor of English at Cornell University
3: The Noble Savage: Mark Twain
Twain seems to have thought for a long time that Huckleberry Finn, one of the world's great books, wasjust another boy's book. But behind the uproarious comedy is one of literature's great visions of what the world looks like in the light of man's dream of perfection, a dream that has haunted both American society and American literature.
Readings by JAMES DYKENFORTH
Produced by Howard Smith
Second broadcast
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Mark Twain
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Huckleberry Finn
Produced By:
Howard Smith

Network Three

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