Huckleberry Finn

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

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How to use Huckleberry Finn in a sentence

As the family’s circumstances devolve, what began in the vein of Robinson Crusoe or Huckleberry Finn starts to look more like Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
Justin Theroux Is Great in The Mosquito Coast. But What Is This Muddled Meditation on American Life Trying to Say?|Judy Berman|April 29, 2021|Time
English provided little of that thrill save, perhaps, Holden Caulfield’s excessive swearing or Huckleberry Finn’s audacity in heading down the big river after faking his own death.
Carbon, It’s Elementary, Dear Reader - Issue 99: Universality|John Barnett|April 14, 2021|Nautilus
Strap-ons, T-injections, and lesbian sex parties—young male adventures have come a long way from Huckleberry Finn.
A New Huck on the Hardcore LGBT Hudson|William O’Connor|June 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain Because I've never read it.
Book Bag: Janet Evanovich’s Summer Reads|Janet Evanovich|June 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST

He also won a Tony for best score for Big River, his musical adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Searching for the Ghost of Roger Miller in Erick, Okla.|Malcolm Jones|September 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain What can I say?
Bradley Cooper on His Favorite Books: ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ ‘Lolita,’ ‘Fountainhead’|Bradley Cooper|September 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST
There would be Huckleberry Finn, that magnificent journey down the river into the heart of our founding sins.
Is Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ the Great American Novel?|Michael Gorra|August 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Clemens decided to have the Huckleberry Finn book illustrated after his own ideas.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
He has always been a conscientious artist; but no amount of industry could ever have produced a Huckleberry Finn.
Essays on Modern Novelists|William Lyon Phelps
When Huckleberry Finn went to the circus he sneaked in under the tent when the watchman was absent.
A Book About the Theater|Brander Matthews
I know few men in England who have not left their boyhood to some extent lost and entangled in the forests of Huckleberry Finn.
What I Saw in America|G. K. Chesterton
No attempt at literary tone; the book derives its very quality from this fact, as did 'Huckleberry Finn.'
Flappers and Philosophers|F. Scott Fitzgerald