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1885 novel past Marking Twain

Adventures of Blueberry Finn
2nd (1st United states of america) edition book cover
Author	Mark Twain
Illustrator	Eastward. W. Kemble
Country	United States
Language	English language
Series	Tom Sawyer
Genre	Picaresque novel
Publisher	Chatto & Windus / Charles L. Webster And Company.
Publication date	December 10, 1884 (United kingdom and Canada) 1885^[1] (Us)
Pages	366
OCLC	29489461
Preceded by	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Followed by	Tom Sawyer Abroad
Text	Adventures of Blueberry Finn at Wikisource

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or equally information technology is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Blueberry Finn , is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was start published in the Uk in December 1884 and in the United states in Feb 1885.

Ordinarily named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the kickoff in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English language, characterized by local colour regionalism. Information technology is told in the offset person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of ii other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The volume is noted for "changing the grade of children'south literature" in the United states for the "deeply felt portrayal of adolescence".^[2] ^{[ better source needed ]} It is too known for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Prepare in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over xx years before the work was published, Adventures of Blueberry Finn is an oftentimes scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, especially racism and freedom.

Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has too been the continued object of written report by literary critics since its publication. The book was widely criticized upon release because of its all-encompassing use of coarse language and racial epithet. Throughout the 20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist,^[3] ^[4] criticism of the book continued due to both its perceived utilize of racial stereotypes and its frequent apply of the racial slur "nigger".

Plot [edit]

In St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi River, during the 1830s–1840s, Blueberry "Huck" Finn has come into a considerable sum of money following The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is placed under the strict guardianship of the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. The women try to civilize him, merely Huck prefers to take adventures with his friend Tom Sawyer. His begetter, "Pap", an abusive alcoholic, returns to boondocks and tries to advisable Huck's fortune. When this fails, Pap kidnaps Huck and confines him in a cabin in the woods.

To escape his father, Huck elaborately fakes his own murder and sets off downriver. He settles on Jackson's Island, where he reunites with Miss Watson's slave Jim, who ran abroad afterwards overhearing she was planning to sell him. Huck decides to get downriver with Jim to Cairo, in the free state of Illinois. After heavy flooding, the ii find a timber raft and an entire house floating down the river. Inside, Jim finds a trunk that has been shot to death just prevents Huck from viewing the corpse.^[5] Huck sneaks into town and discovers there is a advantage out for Jim, who is suspected of killing Huck; the two abscond on their raft.

Huck and Jim come up across a grounded steamer, where two thieves are discussing murdering a third. Finding that their own raft has drifted away, Huck and Jim abscond in the thieves' boat before being noticed. They find their own raft again and sink the thieves' boat, keeping their loot. Huck tricks a watchman into going to rescue the stranded thieves to assuage his conscience. Huck and Jim are separated in a fog, and when they reunite, Huck tricks Jim into thinking he dreamed the unabridged incident. Jim is disappointed when Huck admits the truth. Huck is surprised by Jim'due south potent feelings and apologizes.

Jim and Huck on their raft, by E. Westward. Kemble

Huck is conflicted about supporting a runaway slave, which he has been taught is a sin. He decides to plough Jim in, but when two white men seeking runaway slaves come up upon the raft, he lies to them and they get out. Jim and Huck realize they have passed Cairo. With no way of getting back upriver, they decide to keep downriver. The raft is struck past a passing steamship, again separating the two.

On the riverbank, Huck meets the Grangerford family unit, who are engaged in a 30-year blood feud with the Shepherdson family, although no one remembers why the feud originally started. After a Grangerford daughter elopes with a Shepherdson boy, the feud boils over and all the Grangerford males are shot and killed in a Shepherdson ambush. Huck escapes and is reunited with Jim, who has recovered and repaired the raft.

Downriver, Jim and Huck are joined past two confidence men claiming to be a King and a Duke. The swindlers rope Huck and Jim into playing forth with a series of scams. In one boondocks, the swindlers scam the townsfolk with a short and overpriced performance. On the third night, the grifters abscond before the townsfolk can take revenge. In the next town, the swindlers impersonate brothers of recently-deceased Peter Wilks to steal his estate. Huck tries to retrieve the coin for Wilks's orphaned nieces. Ii men challenge to be Wilks' real brothers arrive, causing an uproar. Huck tries to flee in the defoliation, but is caught past the grifters. Eventually he escapes, but finds that the swindlers have sold Jim to the Phelps family unit plantation. Huck vows to free Jim, despite assertive he will become to hell every bit a upshot.

The Phelps family mistakes Huck for their nephew Tom, who is expected for a visit, and Huck plays along. It turns out their nephew is Tom Sawyer. When he arrives, he plays along with Huck's story and develops a theatrical program to free Jim. During the escape, Tom is wounded. Jim tends to him instead of escaping, and is arrested and returned to the plantation.^[vi] Tom's Aunt Polly arrives and reveals the boys' true identities. She explains that Miss Watson has died, freeing Jim in her will. Tom admits he knew this, but wanted to "rescue" Jim in way.^[7] Jim says that Huck'due south father was the expressionless man they found in the floating house, then Huck may render safely to Saint petersburg. Huck declares that he intends to abscond west to Indian Territory to escape being adopted by the Phelps family.

Characters [edit]

The "King" and the "Duke", by East. Due west. Kemble

In social club of appearance:

Tom Sawyer is Huck's best friend and peer, the main character of other Twain novels and the leader of the town boys in adventures. He is mischievous, adept hearted, and "the best fighter and the smartest kid in town".^[8]
Huckleberry Finn, "Huck" to his friends, is a boy near "thirteen or fourteen or along there" years old. (Chapter 17) He has been brought up by his male parent, the town boozer, and has a difficult time fitting into society. In the novel, Huck's expert nature offers a contrast to the inadequacies and inequalities in social club.
Widow Douglas is the kind adult female who takes Huck in after he helped salve her from a tearing dwelling house invasion. She tries her best to "sivilize" (civilize) Huck, believing it is her Christian duty to do so.
Miss Watson is the widow's sister, a tough onetime spinster who as well lives with them. She is adequately hard on Huck, causing him to resent her a good deal. Mark Twain may accept fatigued inspiration for this character from several people he knew in his life.^[8]
Jim is Miss Watson's physically large but mild-mannered slave. Huck becomes very close to Jim when they reunite afterward Jim flees Miss Watson's household to seek refuge from slavery, and Huck and Jim get beau travelers on the Mississippi River.
"Pap" Finn is Huck's father, a roughshod alcoholic out-of-stater. He resents Huck getting any kind of education. His only genuine interest in his son involves begging or extorting coin to feed his booze addiction.
Judith Loftus plays a small part in the novel — being the kind and perceptive adult female whom Huck talks to in order to discover out nigh the search for Jim — but many critics believe her to be the best drawn female person character in the novel.^[eight]
The Grangerfords, an aristocratic Kentuckian family headed by the sexagenarian Colonel Saul Grangerford, take Huck in afterward he is separated from Jim on the Mississippi. Huck becomes close friends with the youngest male of the family, Buck Grangerford, who is Huck's age. By the fourth dimension Huck meets them, the Grangerfords have been engaged in an age-old blood feud with some other local family, the Shepherdsons.
The Duke and the Rex are two otherwise unnamed con artists whom Huck and Jim accept aboard their raft but earlier the offset of their Arkansas adventures. They pose every bit the long-lost Knuckles of Bridgewater and the long-expressionless Louis XVII of France in an attempt to over-awe Huck and Jim, who apace come to recognize them for what they are, merely cynically pretend to accept their claims to avoid conflict.
Doctor Robinson is the only man who recognizes that the King and Duke are phonies when they pretend to be British. He warns the townspeople, but they ignore him.
Mary Jane, Joanna, and Susan Wilks are the three young nieces of their wealthy guardian, Peter Wilks, who has recently died. The Duke and the Rex endeavor to steal their inheritance past posing as Peter's estranged brothers from England but are eventually thwarted.
Aunt Emerge and Uncle Silas Phelps purchase Jim from the Duke and the King. She is a loving, high-strung "farmer's married woman", and he a plodding old man, both a farmer and a preacher. Huck poses as their nephew, Tom Sawyer, after he parts from the conmen. His intention is to try and assistance Jim escape.

Themes [edit]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn explores themes of race and identity; what information technology ways to be gratis and civilized; and the ideas of humanity and social responsibility in the changing landscape of America. A complication exists concerning Jim's character. While some scholars point out that Jim is expert-hearted and moral, and he is not unintelligent (in contrast to several of the more than negatively depicted white characters), others have criticized the novel every bit racist, citing the use of the word "nigger" and emphasizing the stereotypically "comic" treatment of Jim's lack of didactics, superstition and ignorance. This argument is supported past incidents early on in the novel where Huck deliberately "tricks" Jim, taking advantage of his gullibility and Jim still remains loyal to him.^[9] ^[10]

But this novel is also Huck's 'coming of age' story where he overcomes his initial biases and forms a deeper bond with Jim. Throughout the story, Huck is in moral conflict with the received values of the club in which he lives. Huck is unable consciously to rebut those values even in his thoughts merely he makes a moral choice based on his own valuation of Jim's friendship and human worth, a decision in straight opposition to the things he has been taught. Twain, in his lecture notes, proposes that "a sound middle is a surer guide than an sick-trained conscience" and goes on to describe the novel as "...a volume of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat".^[11]

To highlight the hypocrisy required to disregard slavery within an ostensibly moral system, Twain has Huck's father enslave his son, isolate him and beat him. When Huck escapes, he immediately encounters Jim "illegally" doing the same thing. The treatments both of them receive are radically different, especially in an run across with Mrs. Judith Loftus who takes pity on who she presumes to be a runaway apprentice, Huck, yet boasts about her husband sending the hounds after a runaway slave, Jim.^[12]

Some scholars discuss Huck's ain grapheme, and the novel itself, in the context of its relation to African-American culture as a whole. John Alberti quotes Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who writes in her 1990s book Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices, "past limiting their field of inquiry to the periphery," white scholars "take missed the ways in which African-American voices shaped Twain's creative imagination at its cadre." It is suggested that the character of Huckleberry Finn illustrates the correlation, and even interrelatedness, between white and Black civilization in the Usa.^[13]

Illustrations [edit]

The original illustrations were done past Due east.W. Kemble, at the time a immature artist working for Life magazine. Kemble was paw-picked past Twain, who admired his work. Hearn suggests that Twain and Kemble had a similar skill, writing that:

Whatsoever he may have lacked in technical grace ... Kemble shared with the greatest illustrators the ability to give even the pocket-sized individual in a text his ain singled-out visual personality; just as Twain then deftly defined a total-rounded grapheme in a few phrases, so too did Kemble draw with a few strokes of his pen that same entire personage.^[14]

Every bit Kemble could beget only one model, well-nigh of his illustrations produced for the book were done by guesswork. When the novel was published, the illustrations were praised even as the novel was harshly criticized. Due east.W. Kemble produced another set up of illustrations for Harper'due south and the American Publishing Company in 1898 and 1899 after Twain lost the copyright.^[15]

Publication'southward issue on literary climate [edit]

Twain initially conceived of the work every bit a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Blueberry Finn through machismo. Beginning with a few pages he had removed from the earlier novel, Twain began work on a manuscript he originally titled Huckleberry Finn'southward Autobiography. Twain worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of post-obit Huck'due south development into adulthood. He appeared to accept lost interest in the manuscript while it was in progress, and set it aside for several years. Later making a trip down the Hudson River, Twain returned to his work on the novel. Upon completion, the novel'southward championship closely paralleled its predecessor'south: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).^[16]

Mark Twain composed the story in pen on notepaper betwixt 1876 and 1883. Paul Needham, who supervised the authentication of the manuscript for Sotheby'due south books and manuscripts department in New York in 1991, stated, "What yous run into is [Clemens'] attempt to move away from pure literary writing to dialect writing". For example, Twain revised the opening line of Huck Finn three times. He initially wrote, "You lot will not know most me", which he inverse to, "You do not know about me", earlier settling on the last version, "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that own't no matter."^[17] The revisions also evidence how Twain reworked his material to strengthen the characters of Huck and Jim, as well as his sensitivity to the then-electric current argue over literacy and voting.^[xviii] ^[19]

A later version was the first typewritten manuscript delivered to a printer.^[twenty]

Demand for the book spread outside of the United States. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was eventually published on December 10, 1884, in Canada and the U.k., and on February 18, 1885, in the Us.^[21] The illustration on page 283 became a indicate of issue later on an engraver, whose identity was never discovered, made a final-minute add-on to the printing plate of Kemble'south motion picture of one-time Silas Phelps, which drew attention to Phelps' groin. 30 thou copies of the book had been printed before the obscenity was discovered. A new plate was made to correct the analogy and repair the existing copies.^[22] ^[23]

In 1885, the Buffalo Public Library'southward curator, James Fraser Gluck, approached Twain to donate the manuscript to the library. Twain did then. Later it was believed that one-half of the pages had been misplaced by the printer. In 1991, the missing showtime half turned up in a steamer trunk owned by descendants of Gluck's. The library successfully claimed possession and, in 1994, opened the Marking Twain Room to showcase the treasure.^[24]

In relation to the literary climate at the time of the book'due south publication in 1885, Henry Nash Smith describes the importance of Marker Twain'south already established reputation equally a "professional humorist", having already published over a dozen other works. Smith suggests that while the "dismantling of the decadent Romanticism of the later nineteenth century was a necessary functioning," Adventures of Huckleberry Finn illustrated "previously inaccessible resource of imaginative ability, merely besides fabricated vernacular language, with its new sources of pleasance and new free energy, bachelor for American prose and poetry in the twentieth century."^[25]

Critical reception and banning [edit]

In this scene illustrated by Eastward. W. Kemble, Jim has given Huck up for dead and when he reappears thinks he must be a ghost.

While it is clear that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was controversial from the starting time, Norman Mailer, writing in The New York Times in 1984, concluded that Twain's novel was not initially "likewise unpleasantly regarded." In fact, Mailer writes: "the critical climate could hardly anticipate T. Due south. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway's encomiums 50 years later," reviews that would remain longstanding in the American consciousness.^[26]

Alberti suggests that the bookish establishment responded to the volume's challenges both dismissively and with confusion. During Twain's fourth dimension and today, defenders of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "lump all nonacademic critics of the volume together as extremists and 'censors', thus equating the complaints about the book'southward 'coarseness' from the genteel bourgeois trustees of the Hold Public Library in the 1880s with more recent objections based on race and ceremonious rights."^[13]

Upon event of the American edition in 1885, several libraries banned it from their shelves.^[27] The early criticism focused on what was perceived equally the book's crudeness. One incident was recounted in the newspaper the Boston Transcript:

The Agree (Mass.) Public Library committee has decided to exclude Marking Twain's latest book from the library. I member of the committee says that, while he does not wish to call it immoral, he thinks it contains but little sense of humour, and that of a very fibroid type. He regards it as the veriest trash. The library and the other members of the commission entertain similar views, characterizing it as crude, fibroid, and inelegant, dealing with a series of experiences not elevating, the whole volume being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people.^[28]

Author Louisa May Alcott criticized the book'due south publication also, maxim that if Twain "[could non] think of something meliorate to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses he had all-time terminate writing for them".^[29] ^[30]

Twain later on remarked to his editor, "Apparently, the Concord library has condemned Huck as 'trash and simply suitable for the slums.' This will sell us another twenty-five thousand copies for sure!"

In 1905, New York's Brooklyn Public Library besides banned the book due to "bad give-and-take choice" and Huck'southward having "not only itched but scratched" within the novel, which was considered obscene. When asked past a Brooklyn librarian nearly the state of affairs, Twain sardonically replied:

I am profoundly troubled by what you say. I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' & 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, & information technology always distressed me when I detect that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again exist washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted simply compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years onetime. None can practice that and always draw a clean sweet jiff again on this side of the grave.^[31]

Many subsequent critics, Ernest Hemingway among them, accept deprecated the last chapters, claiming the book "devolves into little more than minstrel-show satire and broad comedy" after Jim is detained.^[32] Although Hemingway alleged, "All modernistic American literature comes from" Huck Finn, and hailed information technology every bit "the best volume we've had", he cautioned, "If you must read it you must finish where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boys [sic]. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating."^[33] ^[34] The African-American writer Ralph Ellison argued that "Hemingway missed completely the structural, symbolic and moral necessity for that role of the plot in which the boys rescue Jim. Yet it is precisely this role which gives the novel its significance."^[35] Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Powers states in his Twain biography (Marker Twain: A Life) that "Blueberry Finn endures as a consensus masterpiece despite these final capacity", in which Tom Sawyer leads Huck through elaborate machinations to rescue Jim.^[36]

Controversy [edit]

In his introduction to The Annotated Blueberry Finn, Michael Patrick Hearn writes that Twain "could be uninhibitedly vulgar", and quotes critic William Dean Howells, a Twain contemporary, who wrote that the author'southward "humor was non for most women". However, Hearn continues by explaining that "the reticent Howells plant nothing in the proofs of Huckleberry Finn so offensive that information technology needed to be struck out".^[37]

Much of modern scholarship of Huckleberry Finn has focused on its treatment of race. Many Twain scholars have argued that the book, past humanizing Jim and exposing the fallacies of the racist assumptions of slavery, is an assault on racism.^[38] Others have argued that the book falls brusque on this score, especially in its delineation of Jim.^[27] Co-ordinate to Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia, Twain was unable to fully rise above the stereotypes of Black people that white readers of his era expected and enjoyed, and, therefore, resorted to minstrel show-way one-act to provide sense of humour at Jim's expense, and ended upwards confirming rather than challenging tardily-19th century racist stereotypes.^[39]

In one example, the controversy caused a drastically altered estimation of the text: in 1955, CBS tried to avoid controversial material in a televised version of the book, by deleting all mention of slavery and omitting the character of Jim entirely.^[40]

Because of this controversy over whether Huckleberry Finn is racist or anti-racist, and because the discussion "nigger" is frequently used in the novel (a commonly used word in Twain's time that has since go vulgar and taboo), many have questioned the appropriateness of teaching the volume in the U.S. public school arrangement—this questioning of the word "nigger" is illustrated by a school ambassador of Virginia in 1982 calling the novel the "most grotesque instance of racism I've ever seen in my life".^[41] According to the American Library Clan, Huckleberry Finn was the fifth most frequently challenged book in the U.s.a. during the 1990s.^[42]

There take been several more than recent cases involving protests for the banning of the novel. In 2003, high schoolhouse pupil Calista Phair and her grandmother, Beatrice Clark, in Renton, Washington, proposed banning the book from classroom learning in the Renton School District, though not from any public libraries, considering of the word "nigger". The two curriculum committees that considered her asking eventually decided to keep the novel on the 11th class curriculum, though they suspended it until a panel had time to review the novel and set up a specific teaching procedure for the novel's controversial topics.^[43]

In 2009, a Washington state loftier school teacher, John Foley, called for replacing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with a more modern novel.^[44] In an opinion column that Foley wrote in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, he states that all "novels that use the 'N-word' repeatedly need to go." He states that teaching the novel is not only unnecessary, only difficult due to the offensive language within the novel with many students becoming uncomfortable at "but hear[ing] the N-word."^[45]

In 2016, Adventures of Blueberry Finn was removed from a public school district in Virginia, along with the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, due to their use of racial slurs.^[46] ^[47]

Expurgated editions [edit]

Publishers take made their ain attempts at easing the controversy by style of releasing editions of the volume with the word "nigger" replaced by less controversial words. A 2011 edition of the book, published by NewSouth Books, employed the word "slave" (although the give-and-take is not properly applied to a freed human being). Their argument for making the change was to offer the reader a choice of reading a "sanitized" version if they were non comfortable with the original.^[48] Marking Twain scholar Alan Gribben said he hoped the edition would be more than friendly for utilize in classrooms, rather than have the work banned outright from classroom reading lists due to its language.^[49]

According to publisher Suzanne La Rosa, "At NewSouth, we saw the value in an edition that would assist the works find new readers. If the publication sparks good argue about how language impacts learning or about the nature of censorship or the way in which racial slurs exercise their noxious influence, then our mission in publishing this new edition of Twain'due south works will be more emphatically fulfilled."^[l] Another scholar, Thomas Wortham, criticized the changes, proverb the new edition "doesn't challenge children to ask, 'Why would a child similar Huck utilize such reprehensible language?'"^[51]

Adaptations [edit]

Film [edit]

Huck and Tom (1918 silent) by Famous Players-Lasky; directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Jack Pickford as Tom, Robert Gordon as Huck and Clara Horton every bit Becky^[52]
Huckleberry Finn (1920 silent) by Famous Players-Lasky; directed past William Desmond Taylor; starring Lewis Sargent every bit Huck, Gordon Griffith as Tom and Thelma Salter as Becky^[53] ^[54]
Huckleberry Finn (1931) by Paramount Pictures; directed by Norman Taurog; starring Jackie Coogan as Tom, Junior Durkin every bit Huck, and Mitzi Green as Becky^[54] ^[55]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) by MGM; directed by Richard Thorpe; starring Mickey Rooney as Huck^[56]
The Adventures of Blueberry Finn (1955), starring Thomas Mitchell and John Carradine^[57]
The Adventures of Blueberry Finn (1960), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Eddie Hodges and Archie Moore^[58]
Hopelessly Lost (1973), a Soviet pic^[59]
Blueberry Finn (1974), a musical pic^[60]
Huckleberry Finn (1975), an ABC movie of the week with Ron Howard as Huck Finn^[61]
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn (1985), an ABC moving-picture show of the week with Drew Barrymore as Con Sawyer^[62]
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), starring Elijah Wood and Courtney B. Vance^[63]
Tom and Huck (1995), starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Tom and Brad Renfro as Huck^[64]
Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (2008), a VeggieTales parody^[65]
The Adventures of Huck Finn [de] (2012), a German film starring Leon Seidel and directed past Hermine Huntgeburth^[66]
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014), starring Joel Courtney as Tom Sawyer, Jake T. Austin as Huckleberry Finn, Katherine McNamara as Becky Thatcher^[67]

Television [edit]

Huckleberry no Bōken, a 1976 Japanese anime with 26 episodes^[68]
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, a 1979 series starring Ian Tracey^[69]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a 1985 PBS TV adaptation directed past Peter H. Hunt, starring Patrick Twenty-four hours and Samm-Fine art Williams, with four 1 hr episodes(240 minutes)
Blueberry Finn Monogatari (ハックルベリー・フィン物語), a 1994 Japanese anime with 26 episodes, produced by NHK^[70]

Other [edit]

The Adventures of Blueberry Finn (1973), past Robert James Dixson – a simplified version^[71]
Large River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a 1985 Broadway musical with lyrics and music past Roger Miller^[72]
Manga Classics: Adventures of Blueberry Finn published past UDON Entertainment's Manga Classics imprint was released in November 2017.^[73]

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Literature [edit]

Finn: A Novel (2007), by Jon Clinch – a novel about Huck's male parent, Pap Finn (ISBN 0812977149)
Huck Out West (2017), past Robert Coover – continues Huck's and Tom's adventures during the 1860s and 1870s (ISBN 0393608441)
The Farther Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1983) by Greg Matthews – continues Huck'south and Jim's adventures as they "light out for the territory" and wind up in the throes of the California Gold Rush of 1849^[74] ^[75] ^[76] ^[77]
My Jim (2005), past Nancy Rawles – a novel narrated largely by Sadie, Jim's enslaved wife (ISBN 140005401X)

Music [edit]

Mississippi Suite (1926), by Ferde Grofe: the 2d move is a lighthearted whimsical piece entitled "Blueberry Finn"^[78]
Huckleberry Finn EP (2009), comprising five songs from Kurt Weill's unfinished musical, by Duke Special^[79]

Television receiver [edit]

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a 1968 children's serial produced by Hanna-Barbera combining alive-action and blitheness^[80]

See as well [edit]

Mark Twain bibliography
List of films featuring slavery
The Story of a Bad Boy

Footnotes [edit]

^ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade)…. 1885.
^ "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Summary & Characters". Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved August 6, 2021.
^ Twain, Mark (October 1885). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade).... ... - Full View – HathiTrust Digital Library – HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust. C. L. Webster.
^ Jacob O'Leary, "Critical Notation of "Minstrel Shackles and Nineteenth Century 'Liberality' in Blueberry Finn" (Fredrick Woodard and Donnarae MacCann)," Wiki Service, Academy of Iowa, last modified February 11, 2012, accessed April 12, 2012 Archived March 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Ira Fistell (2012). Ira Fistell's Marker Twain: Iii Encounters. Xlibris. ISBN 9781469178721 p. 94. "Huck and Jim'due south first adventure together—the House of Decease incident which occupies Chapter 9. This sequence seems to me to be quite important both to the technical functioning of the plot and to the larger meaning of the novel. The House of Death is a two-story frame building that comes floating downstream, one paragraph after Huck and Jim catch their soon—to—be famous raft. While Twain never explicitly says and then, his description of the house and its contents ..."
^ Victor A. Doyno (1991). Writing Huck Finn: Marker Twain'south creative process. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 191. ISBN9780812214482.
^ Nevins, Jess (April 27, 2016). The Victorian Bookshelf: An Introduction to 61 Essential Novels. McFarland. ISBN978-1-4766-2433-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hill, Richard (2002). Marker Twain Amid The Scholars: Reconsidering Contemporary Twain Criticism. SJK Publishing Industries, Inc. pp. 67–90. ISBN978-0-87875-527-ane.
^ 2. Jacob O'Leary, "Disquisitional Annotation of "Minstrel Shackles and Nineteenth Century 'Liberality' in Huckleberry Finn" (Fredrick Woodard and Donnarae MacCann)," Wiki Service, University of Iowa, last modified February xi, 2012, accessed Apr 12, 2012 Archived March 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Fredrick Woodard and Donnarae MacCann, "Minstrel Shackles and Nineteenth Century "Liberality" in Huckleberry Finn," in Satire or evasion?: Blackness perspectives on Blueberry Finn, eds. James S. Leonard, Thomas A. Tenney, and Thadious 1000. Davis (Durham, NC: Knuckles University Printing, 1992).
^ Marker Twain (1895). Notebook No. 35. Typescript, P. 35. Mark Twain Papers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
^ Foley, Barbara (1995). "Reviewed work: Satire or Evasion? Blackness Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, James S. Leonard, Thomas A. Tenney, Thadious Davis; the Give-and-take in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867, Dana D. Nelson". Modern Philology. 92 (three): 379–385. doi:10.1086/392258. JSTOR 438790.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at Standard Ebooks
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at Project Gutenberg
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with all the original illustrations – Free Online – Mark Twain Projection (printed 2003 Academy of California Printing, online 2009 MTPO) Rich editorial fabric accompanies text, including detailed historical notes, glossaries, maps, and documentary appendixes, which tape the writer'south revisions every bit well every bit unauthorized textual variations.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Digitized copy of the beginning American edition from Net Archive (1885).
"Special Collections: Mark Twain Room (Houses original manuscript of Huckleberry Finn)". Libraries of Buffalo & Erie County. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved September 21, 2007.

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