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 ...

Often called “the great American novel,” Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published in 1884. The story is told by Huck Finn, a 13- or 14-year-old boy who lives in a Missouri ...

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - we all surely remember - Jim and Huck, early in their travels on the river, come upon a wrecked house floating down the Mississippi. They board it and find a ...