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 ...
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 ...