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The sign's bold, Gothic letters playfully warn students to "abandon hope" once they step inside his classroom. He doesn't actually mean it, though. Lowell High School English teacher Daniel Teague, a literature lover with a twisted sense of humor, simply finds it funny. He is, after all, the same teacher who asked to move into Room 101 because he always reads George Orwell's "1984" with his seniors. When the principal forbids Teague from hanging the sign above his classroom door before school opens for 2001-2002, Teague never imagines how important that line-and Dante's own journey-will...

Pap ranks among the most reviled characters in American Literature. Certainly, the fact that he abuses and abandons his son, Huckleberry, in Mark Twain's classic novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" makes him an appropriate target of hatred. But didn't Mark Twain believe that everyone has a "good spot" inside of them? So, if that's true-for everyone-how can we reconcile the author's philosophy with his seemingly damnable character, Pap? The answer lies beneath the surface of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." This book fishes out that answer. Whenever appropriate, "Pap" attempts to stay true...