Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain( Book )
650 editions published between 1884 and 2011 in 26 languages and held by 8,044 libraries worldwide
A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.

Finn : a novel by Jon Clinch( Book )
17 editions published between 2007 and 2011 in English and held by 2,468 libraries worldwide
In this debut by a major new voice in fiction, the author takes readers on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain's classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless body flayed and stripped of all identifying marks, drifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of the victim's identity, shape Finn's story as they will shape his life and his death. Along the way the author introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Finn's terrifying father, known only as the Judge; his sickly, sycophantic brother, Will; blind Bliss, a secretive moonshiner; the strong and quick witted Mary, a stolen slave who becomes Finn's mistress; and of course young Huck himself. In daring to recreate Huck for a new generation, the author gives readers a living boy in all his human complexity,not an icon, not a myth, but a real child facing vast possibilities in a world alternately dangerous and bright. Finn is a novel about race; about paternity in its many guises; about the shame of a nation recapitulated by the shame of one absolutely unforgettable family. Above all, Finn reaches back into the darkest waters of America's past to fashion something compelling, fearless, and new.

Twentieth century interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; a collection of critical essays by Claude M Simpson( Book )
2 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 1,965 libraries worldwide

The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain( Book )
103 editions published between 1917 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 1,909 libraries worldwide
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

Huck Finn( Book )
3 editions published between 1990 and 2004 in English and held by 1,885 libraries worldwide
A critical examination of Mark Twain's character of Huckleberry Finn.

Was Huck Black? : Mark Twain and African-American voices by Shelley Fisher Fishkin( Book )
1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 1,630 libraries worldwide
Published in 1884, Huckberry Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelly Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art. In Was Huck Black?, Fishkin combines close readings of published and unpublished writing by Twain with intensive biographical and historical research and insights gleaned from linguistics, literary theory, and folklore to shed new light on the role African-American voices played in the genesis of Huckleberry Finn. Given that book's importance in American culture, her analysis illuminates, as well, how African-American voices have shaped our sense of what is distinctively "American" about American literature. Fishkin shows that Mark Twain was surrounded, throughout his life, by richly talented African-American speakers whose rhetorical gifts Twain admired candidly and profusely. A black child named Jimmy whom Twain called "the most art-less, sociable, and exhaustless talker I ever came across" helped Twain understand the potential of a vernacular narrator in the years before he began writing Huckberry Finn, and served as a model for the voice with which Twain would transform American literature. A slave named Jerry whom Twain referred to as an "impudent and satirical and delightful young black man" taught Twain about "signifying" - satire in an African-American vein - when Twain was a teenager (later Twain would recall that he thought him "the greatest man in the United States" at the time). Other African-American voices left their mark on Twain's imagination as well - but their role in the creation of his art has never been recognized. Was Huck Black? adds a new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism and the canon. American literary historians have told a largely segregated story: white writers come from white literary ancestors, black writers from black ones. The truth is more complicated and more interesting. While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices." Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thought.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( Book )
3 editions published between 1986 and 1996 in English and held by 1,604 libraries worldwide

New essays on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( Book )
2 editions published between 1985 and 2003 in English and held by 1,517 libraries worldwide

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : American comic vision by David E. E Sloane( Book )
2 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 1,375 libraries worldwide
Literary criticism of Twain's greatest work.

The Jim dilemma : reading race in Huckleberry Finn by Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua( Book )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 1,357 libraries worldwide
Discusses how Mark Twain's novel "Huckleberry Finn" can help students learn more about slavery, racism, and freedom.