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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1885
Charles L. Webster & Company
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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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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
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
Kierkegaard on the Mississippi
Percival Everett refashions a Mark Twain classic.
by
Zain Khalid
via
Bookforum
on
July 2, 2024
Gulp Fiction, or Into the Missouri-verse
On Percival Everett’s “James.”
by
Matt Seybold
via
Cleveland Review of Books
on
March 25, 2024
"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