"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" enjoys acclaim as the "Great American Novel," its title character a uniquely beloved ...

Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’ / Penguin Random House (cover), Justin Dodd/Mental Floss (background) On its surface, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is ...

You can hear that stress prefigured at the end of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” when Huck admits, “If I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it.” ...

Volunteers from the Tucson Festival of Books are sharing their favorite banned books ahead of Banned Books Week.

The Booker-longlisted novel retells Mark Twain’s tale from a slave’s perspective, challenging readers to confront the brutal ...

Mary Jane never “sat right” with the award-winning scientist and memoirist Hope Jahren, so she wrote a novel about “the real ...

Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction ...

Some novels remain the focus of contention from the moment they’re published, and one of the enduringly hottest of such foci ...

My book club has chosen the newly published book, “James,” as its next selection to read and discuss. “James” is written from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man featured ...

The film, Huckleberry Finn, was all the rage at the time and was being shown at cinemas throughout the country. But Oxford film buffs could see the popular musical show not only on screen but on ...

Only one man has made the Booker Prize shortlist – a year after the award was criticised for featuring more men called Paul ...

Macmillan James, inspired by Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, gives a voice to its escaped slave, Jim The hero of his new novel is - famously - the runaway slave Jim, in Mark Twain ...