The novel retells “Huckleberry Finn” from the viewpoint of the escaped-slave character Jim. The event will be Nov. 8 at Los ...

Twain describes Huckleberry Finn as "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad," qualities for which he was admired by all the other children in the village, although their mothers "cordially hated and ...

Twain's classic, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," remains one of the most-challenged books in America. Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is one of the most-challenged books in ...

Considered the first great American novel, part of Finn's charm is the wisdom and sobering social criticism deftly lurking amongst the seemingly innocent observations of the uneducated Huck and the ...

Everett’s novel “James,” which reimagines “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain from the perspective of Huck’s ...

Mark Twain’s 1885 novel, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has for generations been the center heated debate over whether its content was racist, or emblematic of the times in which it takes place.

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” Those words are often attributed to Mark Twain, who penned the classics “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and ...

“James,” novelist Percival Everett’s retelling of “Huckleberry Finn,” which published Tuesday, not only makes the runaway the narrator, but it imagines him as a kind of Frederick Douglass: that is, ...

While visiting the place where Mark Twain penned some of his most famous tales, Illinois Wesleyan Professor of English James ...

How do you keep a heavy door from slamming shut? That was a problem to be solved by the mid-18th century when huge brass hinges held the doors. It was solved with wedges, heavy rocks or doorstops of ...

New Jersey Assembly members Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D-Mercer) and Jamel Holley (D-Union) are pushing a bill that would ban the Mark Twain book “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn“ from the state school ...