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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

1885

Charles L. Webster & Company

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Broken statue bust of a Black man.

A Bloody Retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn'

Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’s classic 'Huckleberry Finn' into a tragedy.

by Tyler Austin Harper via The Atlantic on March 12, 2024

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Mark Twain sits in thought on stone steps surrounded by nature while holding papers

Twain Dreams

The enigma of Samuel Clemens.

by John Jeremiah Sullivan via Harper’s on April 29, 2025

Mark Twain

The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on April 28, 2025

Painting by Earle Richardson titled "Employment of Negroes in Agriculture," 1934.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is the Great American Novel

Most countries take their popular novelists more seriously than America has. The term “Great American Novel” was literally invented to describe this book

by Naomi Kanakia via Woman of Letters on March 11, 2025

Cover of "James" by Percival Everett.

Kierkegaard on the Mississippi

Percival Everett refashions a Mark Twain classic.

by Zain Khalid via Bookforum on July 2, 2024

Cover of "James" by Percival Everett

Gulp Fiction, or Into the Missouri-verse

On Percival Everett’s “James.”

by Matt Seybold via Cleveland Review of Books on March 25, 2024

Book cover that reads: "The Next Great American Novel," with the American flag in the background

"James" Is a Retelling of "Huckleberry Finn" that America Desperately Needs

It puts the people in the most peril in the center of the story: the people being systematically exploited, chained, whipped and raped.

by Jarvis Deberry via MSNBC on March 19, 2024

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