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." ...

However, to this day, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is still a controversial book and one of the most banned in the United States. Why Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry ...

Illustration by E. W. Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of ...

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow ... Chernow mounts a nuanced defense of Huck Finn, including its representation of the escaped slave, Jim. “Whatever the shortcomings of Twain’s presentation of ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne ...