Mark Twain was not quite 50 when he published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in February 1885, and in so doing, changed American literature. Until then, many of our writers had flirted with ...

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The Mark Twain House, where the writer wrote the novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," in Hartford, Connecticut. The Mark Twain House, where the writer wrote the ...

Two New Jersey lawmakers are trying to get the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” removed from curricula. Mark Twain’s raw and uncensored 1880s book centers on a young boy, Huckleberry Finn and his ...

American history is not always pretty. Sometimes it’s hard to accept that, but it is true. As Americans, there are blemishes there we don’t like the mirror to remind us of. For over 130 years, “The ...

Mark Twain defined a classic as "a book which people praise and don't read." And for years, the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has fit that category, removed from school reading lists across the ...

ATLANTA - Mark Twain defined a classic as "a book which people praise and don't read." These days a lot of schools are not reading one of his classics, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," because it ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

Everett centers 'James' on the enslaved character Jim from Mark Twain's 1884 picaresque novel. Percival Everett’s acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn won the ...