"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" enjoys acclaim as the "Great American Novel," its title character a uniquely beloved figure in our national heritage. Author Mark Twain's riverfront Missouri boy ...

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 ...

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 ...

New editions of Mark Twain’s ­classic novels about Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer have ­triggered a row by removing all uses of the word ‘n*****’. Publisher and Twain scholar Alan Gribben claimed the ...

Mark Twain began his masterpiece, he said, as "a kind of companion to Tom Sawyer". Drafted in the 1870s, the first chapters of the new book continued the old mood with the sharp ironic humour of its ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of this book including the characters of Huck Finn, a runaway adolescent, and Jim, an escaped slave, and their journey ...

Mark Twain’s masterpiece was his novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” a story of life and friendship, racism and hypocrisy along the Mississippi River in the 1800s. Few books in U.S. history ...