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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 ...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain: Coarse language, racial stereotypes and use of the N-word 1884 33 14 5 The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Dav Pilkey: Encouraging poor spelling 2002 41 47 — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain: Coarse language, racial stereotypes 1876 — — 83 Alice (series) Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Sexual ...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain was listed by the American Library Association as the 5th most commonly banned book in the U.S. due to racism in 2007. [72] NewSouth Books received media attention for publishing an expurgated edition of the work that censored the words nigger and Injun.
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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 ...
This is a selected list of authors and works listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.The Index was discontinued on June 14, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. [1] [2]A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002.
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