"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." -Mark Twain ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of this book including the characters of Huck Finn, a runaway adolescent, and Jim, an escaped slave, and their journey ...

Is there anything left to say about Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn? That is the question that animates big parts of Andrew Levy's Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain And The Era That Shaped His ...

“James,” in a sense, reprises the same linguistic drag in reverse. Early in the novel, we learn that Jim’s famous eye dialect from “Huckleberry Finn” is, in Everett’s telling, a strategic form of code ...

Very few characters in American history have captured the American zeitgeist like Tom Sawyer. First published in 1876, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer quickly became a household novel that ...