Who Is Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in the United States in January 1885, has faced challenged as soon as the book hit the shelves. Due to the depiction of slavery, the crude dialect and the usage of the “N-word” more than 200 times throughout the book, the American Library Association lists The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as number 5 on the Most Frequently Challenged Books list for the 1990-1999 decade and number 14 for the 2000-2009 decade. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been translated into over 53 languages and it has never gone out of print since it was first published in 1885, and it has sold over 20 million copies. In the U.S. alone, there are well over 100 different editions of the book and a staggering 700 plus in foreign editions. Ernest Hemingway once said “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn’, and it's the best book …show more content…
When Twain got them, he liked some and rejected a few saying, “the people in these pictures are forbidding and repulsive…An artist shouldn’t follow the book too literally, perhaps - if this is the necessary result.” Kemble went back and made the next set of chapter illustrations and Twain was greatly pleased. “This batch of pictures is most rattling good,” he admitted. “They please me exceedingly.” Twain did throw out the engraving that was supposed to go with Chapter 20 when the King kissed a girl at a camp meeting. “It is powerful good, but it musn’t go in,” he explained to Webster. “Let’s not make any pictures of the camp meeting. The subject wouldn’t bear illustrating. It is a disgusting thing and the pictures are sure to tell the truth about it too plainly.” Finally, Twain was happy with the engravings and the book went on to the next step of publication