The flood led to its discovery. What did Huck and Jim do on the raft? In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the raft is one of the only objects that stays with Huck and Jim for long periods of time. The ...

Samuel Clemens, who took the steamboating term “Mark Twain” as his pen name, knew the Mississippi was a deadly river to navigate. But it feels like a tranquil brook next to the tumultuous ...

Yet Huck Finn has been in trouble almost continuously ... feel every time I heard that word or watched the class laugh at Jim. . . ." Champions of the novel reply that it is a satire, a scathing ...

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, ...

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing ... plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold.

Everett's acclaimed reworking of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from the perspective of Jim, Huck Finn's enslaved companion, has already received the National Book Award and the ...

Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim fall in with a pair of low-grade con artists. One fancies himself a king and the other a duke.

Big Rapids Novel Tea Book Club commemorates Black History Month, reads and discusses "James" by Percival Everett in February ...