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  2. Huckleberry Finn - Wikipedia

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    Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). He is 12 to 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen to fourteen or along there", Chapter 17) at the ...

  3. Jim (Huckleberry Finn) - Wikipedia

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    Jim's is one of the several spoken dialects called deliberate in a prefatory note. Academic studies include Lisa Cohen Minnick's 2004 Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech [7] and Raphaell Berthele's 2000 "Translating African-American Vernacular English into German: The problem of 'Jim' in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn".

  4. List of Tom Sawyer characters - Wikipedia

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    Soon after Huck escapes, Pap Finn leaves to search for him and doesn't return. At the end of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim reveals to Huck that the corpse they found in the abandoned house early in the book was actually that of Huck's father. Pap Finn's backstory is explored in Finn: A Novel (2007), by Jon Clinch. [1]

  5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Wikipedia

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels , the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English ...

  6. If you own a copy of this famous Mark Twain book with a typo ...

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    One of the most valuable misprints can be found in the original 1885 edition of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, the classic tale of friendship and mischief along the ...

  7. Bill Murray explains why 'Huckleberry Finn' critics are wrong ...

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    Of course, it's not lost on Murray that Huckleberry Finn is a divisive work, one that's been banned numerous times since its initial publication in 1884 for its frank depictions of 19th century ...

  8. Use of nigger in the arts - Wikipedia

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    Huckleberry Finn was the fifth most challenged book during the 1990s, according to the American Library Association. [13] The novel is written from the point of view, and largely in the language, of Huckleberry Finn, an uneducated white boy, who is drifting down the Mississippi River on a raft with an adult escaped slave, Jim. The word "nigger ...

  9. List of Magical Negro occurrences in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Jim in Mark Twain's 1884 book the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [63] and its adaptations. A recurring archetype in Stephen King's novels as well as some adaptations of his work: Dick Hallorann in The Shining (1977) novel, the 1980 film adaptation (Scatman Crothers), and the 1997 TV miniseries (Melvin Van Peebles) [1]