Just a month after its publication, librarians in Concord, Massachusetts deemed it “trash” and “suitable only for the slums.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walt Disney's The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 adaptation of the American classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by ...

"Questioning while laughing. What lies beyond common sense?"Mark Twain is known for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

Mark Twain’s classic novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” has been called “The Great American Novel.” Even now, when works about the Old South are generally frowned upon, it remains one of the ...

“A committee of the public library of your town have condemned and excommunicated my last book,” Mark Twain wrote to the secretary of Concord Free Trade Club in 1885, “and doubled its sales.” The book ...

Tom Wortham is an expert on Mark Twain and his masterpiece, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Wortham has amassed a staggering collection of toys and tchotchkes inspired by the novel and contends that ...

So I suppose there was something about Huck’s voice, a kid who just didn’t quite understand the world and wasn’t afraid to ...

As PW says, "for decades, [Huckleberry Finn] has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on ...

Jane Smiley is the author, most recently, of “Private Life,” a novel. Updated December 19, 2011, 5:30 PM Literature — novels, plays, and poems — can have an uncanny dual life, where they ...