Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). Scene, the Mississippi Valley. Time, Forty to Fifty Years Ago. By Mark Twain.

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Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). Scene, the Mississippi Valley. Time, Forty to Fifty Years Ago. By Mark Twain.

New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885

While today we think of Huckleberry Finn as a great work of literature (which it is) it is also important to remember that when the first edition was published, Huckleberry Finn was first known as a popular “boy’s book” (directly linked to its predecessor, Tom Sawyer) and it was placed firmly within the conventions of American children’s books of the 1880s: with a decorative cloth binding and “with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations.” The geographic location allowed Mark Twain to explore as well many of the myths, motifs, and literary techniques of the Old Southwest.

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Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910

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