BERKELEY — Huck Finn, it turns out, didn’t always sound so distinctively Huckish. At first, the character who became the teenage hero of Mark Twain’s classic novel sounded almost literary. He said “as ...
On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...
the four sections Twain cut from the version of “Huckleberry Finn” published in England in 1884 and America in 1885. The masterly restoration by Justin Kaplan and Victor Doyno will be extremely useful ...