‘Lighting Out’ and the 100 Best Last Lines from Novels
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.11.08 | 12:00 PM ET
The American Book Review has made its list of the 100 best final lines from novels. Coming in at No. 5, from a book featuring a couple of our favorite fictional travelers, the last lines from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: “But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.” The American Book Review site doesn’t have a Web page with the complete list, but you can download a pdf of it here.
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