GREENWICH — Huckleberry Finn is a legend in American fiction, but he took his famed trip down the Mississippi River alongside a runaway slave named Jim, who until recently did not have his own ...

[Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim fall in with a pair of low-grade con artists. One fancies ...

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, ...

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer ... plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold.

They embark on a terrifying and enthralling journey along the Mississippi River, which involves ... Twain tried to humanise ...

Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared ... I heard that word or watched the class laugh at Jim. . . ." Champions of the novel reply that it ...

Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Vol. 37, No. 5, Feb., 1984 The Publication of "Huckleberry Finn": A... The Publication of "Huckleberry Finn": A Centennial Retrospect This is the ...