![]() ![]() Mark Twain may be called the Edison of our literature. It is a more minute and faithful picture of Southwestern manners and customs fifty years ago than was Life on the Mississippi, while in regard to the dialect it surpasses any of the author’s previous stories in the command of the half-dozen species of patois which passed for the English language in old Missouri. “ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn must be pronounced the most amusing book Mark Twain has written for years. To mark the occasion, let’s take a look back at the very first reviews of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s iconic American picaresque in which a puckish young boy and a runaway slave make a long and frequently interrupted voyage down the Mississippi River on a raft, encountering all manner of memorable characters along the way. The whom Faulkner called “the father of American literature” was born Samuel Langhorne Clemmons 186 years ago today in the (currently uninhabited) village of Florida, Missouri, as Halley’s Comet blazed across the night sky. ![]()
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