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Huckleberry Finn

American  
[fin] / fɪn /

noun

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


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As Mark Twain wrote in Huckleberry Finn, “You pays your money and you takes your choice.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 22, 2024

Percival Everett, delivers James, a powerful retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck's friend, the enslaved Jim.

From BBC Dec. 28, 2023

She says the “modern Huckleberry Finn story” is a perennial bestseller.

From Seattle Times Aug. 24, 2023

After his father died suddenly in 1944 at home he was raised by his mother, who bought him books such as "Huckleberry Finn."

From Reuters Mar. 13, 2023

“I can no more tell you what happens to her than I can tell you what becomes of Proust’s Narrator or Holden Caulfield’s sister or Huckleberry Finn after he lights out for the territories.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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