The novel retells “Huckleberry Finn” from the viewpoint of the escaped-slave character Jim. The event will be Nov. 8 at Los ...

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, ...

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Owen Wilson names his five favourite books, covering fiction and non-fiction, including one title with a connection to his ...

BIG RIVER: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, the heartwarming Broadway show won 7 Tony Awards, including for Best Musical. Mark Twain's timeless classic sweeps us down the mighty Mississippi as the ...

For years, the book has been banned by some schools because of the "N" word. Those publishing the new edition hope this will get the classic... Saying they want to publish a version that won't be ...

Does a 1985 musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s then-100-year-old odyssey through the antebellum South still have something to offer? A lively, deeply moving revival of “Big River: The Adventures of ...

There is more irony in D.J. Tice's column ("At least keep these two books as part of your personal curriculum," Feb. 18) than the famous passage he quotes from "Huck Finn" or than Boo Radley being a ...

Twain's novel pioneered the use of colloquial dialect, which has long caused controversy for its 219 uses of the N-word. Getty Images A British university has issued a “trigger warning” on Mark ...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is all boy. Eddie Hodges Huck isn't. Therein lurks the basic reason this production of the Twain classic is not all it could, and should, be. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry ...