Facts about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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   A sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Huck as he escapes his abusive father and travels down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave named Jim.

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   Ernest Hemingway famously declared in Green Hills of Africa that all modern American literature comes from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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   Banned from the Concord, Massachusetts public library shortly after its release, the novel was condemned as coarse and inappropriate for young readers.

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   Mark Twain narrates The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the first-person voice of Huck himself, giving the novel its distinctive vernacular and dialect-heavy style.

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   Published in 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often cited by scholars as a foundational work of American literature.

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