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Thoughts on ‘Huckleberry Finn’

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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, commissioners recommended that the town’s library ban the book. They described the novel as “racist, coarse, trashy, inelegant, irreligious, obsolete, inaccurate, and mindless.” Yes, it is all those things. It is all too human. Huck and a runaway slave nam…

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Thoughts on ‘Huckleberry Finn’

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, commissioners recommended that the town’s library ban the book. They described the novel as “racist, coarse, trashy, inelegant, irreligious, obsolete, inaccurate, and mindless.” Yes, it is all those things. It is all too human. Huck and a runaway slave nam…

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