Tag: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

‘The Adventures of Huck(leberry) Finn’ 1939 vs 1993

Commentary Mark Twain’s 1884 novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is often called the great American novel. Although technically a sequel to his 1876 novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” “Huckleberry Finn” ended up overshadowing its precursor. The dynamic story about a free-spirited boy who escapes his abusive father by floating down the Mississippi River…


“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and the Kingship of Humanity

NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in the 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. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR This warning famously graces the opening page of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” setting…