Dec 26, 2009

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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