Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. It is commonly named among the Great American Novels and is among the first major works of American literature written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism; a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it is told in the first person by Huckleberry Huck Finn. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over twenty years before the work was published, the novel is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River and, despite continued criticism for its coarse language and racial epithets, is widely regarded as an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Composed, From (Year)First published in the United Kingdom in December 1884; the United States edition followed in February 1885. Composed, To (Year) Classification
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Was Adventures of Huckleberry Finn banned when it first appeared?
Several libraries banned it in 1885 for its perceived crudeness.
Yes. When the American edition was issued in 1885, several libraries banned it from their shelves. The early criticism focused on what was seen as the book's crudeness.
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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.
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The book is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in the United States for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood".
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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. It is commonly named among the Great American Novels, and it is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism.
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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.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain
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Being the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it is told in the first person by Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn.
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