Mark Twain’s sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was first published in the United States on Feb. 18, 1885.
It went from being considered vulgar shortly after it was printed to a masterpiece decades later. Published on Feb. 18, 1885, it still causes controversy ...
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, ...
Susie speaks with Percival Everett, Pulitzer prize-winning author of the phenomenon James , about the process of reimagining ...
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the critic Lionel Trilling wrote, is “one of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American culture,” in part because it grows with its readers.
February 18, 1885. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Missouri’s own Mark Twain was published in the United States.
February 18 holds a special place in history. Martin Luther's death in 1546 sparked the Protestant Reformation. Mark Twain's ...
Percival Everett has breathed fierce life into one of American literature's iconic characters in James, a retelling of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the runaway slave. But language is ...
In his 2024 novel James, Percival Everett reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, an ...
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