The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Beyond the Popular Humorist: The Complexity of Mark Twain
In this essay, R. Moore comments on the depth, texture, and social commentary that pervaded Twain's work, a quality sometimes belied by the humorous surface of Twain's work.
The popularity of the literary work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, “ Mark Twain,” is a clearly known fact in the history of American letters. Creator of two of the best loved heroes of this nation’s literature, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, the man from Hannibal, Missouri, nevertheless, might very well be described as a challenge to those who would determine the bases for popular acceptance on the American literary scene.
Perhaps one of the more common interpretations given this matter is found in the following comment by Hamlin Garland: “The people can never be educated to...
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