Feb. 18, 1885: Huckleberry Finn is Published
On this day in 1885, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the United States. The book follows Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel on a raft down the Mississippi River.
Due to the book’s crude language and depiction of slavery and life in the South, Huckleberry Finn was banned in some places in the U.S. Today, literary critics recognize it as a literary masterpiece, but the book remains controversial in schools.
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Image: 1884 Illustration from first edition of Huckleberry Finn (Library of Congress).
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