Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is an American classic. It tells the story of how the abused white boy Huck and the runaway black slave Jim teamed up to escape their circumstances.

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A great project would be if a class taught ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’ ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ and ‘James.’ It would make for a lot of great discussion.” ...

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In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) cement… ...

In it, Mark Twain wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, along with umpteen other stories, articles ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Twain grew up in the slaveholding community of Hannibal, Mo., a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” but as Ron Chernow’s hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses.

Adaptations of classic works are tricky. In taking another crack at The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre or Anne of Green Gables, writers must convince an audience that the tale has ...