Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." ...

National Book Award-winning novel, 'James,' Percival Everett grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well as racial issues, while enveloping all in sarcasm and irony.

And that’s exactly what he’s done with James. It’s imprecise to call James a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of ...

Capistrano Unified School Board Member Judy Bullockus used the N-word during her comments to support approving a book for ...

There are and will always be steps in the sales process. They actually have changed very little since 1865, when Mark Twain created what might be one of the first sales training manuals “The ...

His new novel, James, is a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic but controversial The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the ...

The majestic Mississippi River, which President Abraham Lincoln called the Father of Waters, flows north to south through the ...

Mark Twain is the theme of this year’s Community Read, hosted by Geneva Reads. For the month of March, the local literacy coalition will focus on one of Twain’s best-known characters, Huck Finn — and ...

This retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn comes from the point of view of Jim, an enslaved man on the run. This would be an ambitious undertaking for any writer. And it gets ...

Percival Everett’s “James” is loosely based on Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," and where it diverges, it excels.

“James,” Percival Everett ’s acclaimed reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Everett’s version of Mark Twain’s ...

Chadwick Why has Huck Finn consistently landed on the list of ... The most recent and most sustained argument against Mark Twain is, “how can a white man write about racism?