Among the many audiobooks Elijah Wood has narrated, including James Patterson’s “Witch & Wizard” trilogy and Jonathan Snow’s “The Most Beautiful Guest” (via Audible), the actor’s take on Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is his most celebrated work. The audiobook comes with an editor’s note on Audible, who praises Wood for creating “an entire world filled with people who cross class and color lines,” adding that his “delivery makes Mark Twain’s delicious wit and twisty language sound completely natural.” They even go so far as to say that “the listening couldn’t be better if Huck read the story himself.”
Technically, Huck is reading the story himself as Wood portrayed the character for a Walt Disney film in 1993. When the actor was just 12 years old, one of his first major roles came in the form of “The Adventures of Huck Finn” (via YouTube), written and directed by Stephen Sommers of “The Mummy” trilogy and the first live-action version of “The Jungle Book” (via IMDb).
