Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (December 1884) is a novel by Mark Twain, It first published in the United Kingdom and then in the United States (February 1885). The work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn is the narrator of this novel along with two other Twain's novels i.e. Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective where he plays the role of Tom Sawyer's friend. This novel is a direct sequel to The Adventure of Tom Sawyer.
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published. Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is an often withering satire on ingrained attitudes, particularly racism.
Adventure of Huckleberry Finn has been popular with readers and it has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. The book was widely criticized upon release because of its extensive use of coarse and racial stereotypes language. Throughout the 20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to its frequent use of the racial slur 'nigger'.
The novel lingers around its main protagonist Tom Sawyer, best friend and peer of the narrator Huckleberry Finn. He is the leader of the town boys in adventures. He is the best fighter and the smartest kid in the town. Huck was placed under the guardianship of widow Douglas who tries to teach him religion and make him civilized. But Huck finds it confining. Huck and Tom each have considerable money as a result of their earlier adventures. When Huck's dad suddenly reappears, he knows that his drunken and cruel dad will spend all the money on alcohol. To get away from his dad, he runs away with the help of Tom and his gang. He fakes his own death and lives in the woods. Soon, he meets Jim, a runaway slave of Ms. Watson, and both of them set off on a dangerous journey down the Mississippi River, in search of freedom.
Adaptation
Film
Huck and Tom (1918 silent), Huckleberry Finn (1920), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955)(1960), Hopelessly Lost (1973, a Soviet film), Huckleberry Finn (1974, a musical film), The Adventure of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1985, an ABC movie), Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (2008, a Veggie Tales parody), The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012, a German film), Band of Robbers (2015, an American crime comedy), and many more.
Television
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968, children's live-action and animation series), Huckleberry no Bōken (1976, a Japanese anime), Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (1979, series), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985, a PBS TV series), Huckleberry Finn Monogatari (1994, Japanese anime), The Simpsons (2001, based on scenes from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
Other
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985, Broadway Musical), Manga Classics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2017)
Literature
Finn: A Novel (2007, a novel about Huck's father Pap Finn), Huck Out West (2017), The Further Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (1983), My Jim (2005, largely narrated by Sadie, Jim's enslaved wife)
Music
Mississippi Suite (1926), Huckleberry Finn EP (2009, comprising five songs)
About the Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), widely known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He liked to be called by other pen names as such Josh and Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.
His most prominent novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn earned him the title of the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," the latter often called The Great American Novel. Twain enjoyed immense popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him admiration from both critics and peers. American author Willian Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".
Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it' as well. He died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth.
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Rating: 4.6/5
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Benediction Classics (Illustrated edition)
Publishing Date: June 23, 2020
Edition Language: English
Genre: Teen &Young Adult Fiction about being a Teen, Teen and Young Adult Action & Adventure, United States Civil War Period History
ISBN-10: 178943114X
ISBN-13: 978-1789431148
Pages: 340 (Hardcover)
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