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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Guide to Online ResourcesBy Jim ZwickAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain's most loved, most influential, and most controversial books. It was banned from the Concord Public Library in 1885, the year of its publication, and Huckleberry Finn ranks number five in the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s. But in 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.... All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Not surprisingly, Huckleberry Finn is one of Twain's books that is most thoroughly represented on the Web. It, along with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective -- three other books in which Huck Finn appears -- were among the first of Twain's books added to the Project Gutenberg etext library in 1993. A search for "Huckleberry Finn" on the Web will list thousands of pages, making it very difficult to find the information you need. This guide is intended to provide a more focused directory of online resources related to the novel. They range from information abo
And Jim, as Twain presents him, is hardly a caricature. Rather, he is the moral center of the book, a man of courage and nobility, who risks his freedom -- risks his life -- for the sake of his friend Huck. To those of us who have drunk gratefully of Twain's wisdom and humanity, such accusations are ludicrous. Looking back over the debates about Twain's books during the past 112 years provides an interesting perspective on how American culture has changed, how Twain helped to change it, and why his books continue to raise difficult questions today. Library officials explained that they provided bad examples to the youth of the day. Note, too, that it is not just white critics who make this point. the first response is simply abhorrence but with this, complete intolerance. I can see that it contains racist language,and perhaps creates caricatures of black people. But since the action of the book takes place in the south twenty years before the Civil War, it would be amazing if they didn't use that word.
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