Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain · first published 1876
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The book offers vivid, immersive prose and dialogue in each character's distinct slang. It is a story about escape and independent thinking that rewards rereading at different ages.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain): A tale about escape, thinking for yourself and looking upon society with a critical eye. Plus, I find the beauty of the language, especially dialogues written in the characters' respective…
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on “Who Is America's Homer?” ↗Ernest Hemingway famously declared in his 1935 book Green Hills of Africa that “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”
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