"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" enjoys acclaim as the "Great American Novel," its title character a uniquely beloved figure in our national heritage. Author Mark Twain's riverfront Missouri boy ...

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Jane Smiley is the author, most recently, of “Private Life,” a novel. Updated December 19, 2011, 5:30 PM Literature — novels, plays, and poems — can have an uncanny dual life, where they ...

Twain's time in Buffalo is considered a turning point in his professional life ...

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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 ...

Mark Twain was not quite 50 when he published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in February 1885, and in so doing, changed American literature. Until then, many of our writers had flirted with ...