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  1. 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 ...

    • Mark Twain, Gerald Graff, James Phelan
    • 1884
  2. Apr 3, 2014 · Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the celebrated author of several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of...

  3. Huckleberry " Huck " Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).

  4. Nov 24, 2009 · On February 18, 1885, Mark Twain publishes his famous—and famously controversial—novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the U.S. Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced ...

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    • April 21, 1910
    • November 30, 1835
    • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
    • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
    • The Prince and the Pauper.
    • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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  6. Twain began work on Huckleberry Finn, a sequel to Tom Sawyer, in an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the earlier novel. This new novel took on a more serious character, however, as Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South.

  7. Overview. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, published in 1885, is a quintessential American novel that offers a vivid portrayal of the antebellum South. The story is narrated by Huck Finn, a young boy seeking freedom from his abusive father, who escapes down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave.

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