Huckleberry Finn

[fin]

noun

1. (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ) a novel (1884) by Mark Twain.

Example Sentences

The point was driven home for me by a scene in Percival Everett’s timely 2024 novel “James,” a rendition of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” told from the perspective of the title character, an escaped slave.

From Salon

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Twain grew up in the slaveholding community of Hannibal, Mo., a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

From Los Angeles Times

Everett’s inversion of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told by the eponymous James, allows its narrator to reclaim both his proper name and history from the character Twain simply called “Jim.”

From Los Angeles Times

I don’t want any more ‘Huckleberry Finn’ speeches.

From Los Angeles Times

Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.”

From Los Angeles Times