Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1884
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Adventure
- Subjects: Adolescence, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Midwest, Rivers or waterways, Small-town life, Boys, Runaway children, Fraud, Impostors or imposture
- Locales: Missouri, Mississippi River
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may at first have seemed to Twain to be an obvious and easy sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but this book, begun in the mid-1870 s, then abandoned, then taken up again in 1880 and dropped again, was not ready to be published until 1884. It was worth the delay. It proved to be Twain's finest novel—not merely his finest juvenile work but his best fiction, and a book that has taken its place as one of the greatest novels written in the United States. In some ways it is a simpler novel than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; it has...
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