Still, it’s one of the most banned books. Here’s why. ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was first published in the United States on 18 February 1885 and the following month librarians ...

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 ...

Everett's breezy, fast-moving retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is about putting in some due respect. James, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, is a play of ...

Everett’s novel James, a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, places Jim at the middle of the narrative, just as it tears the story apart from the center. In the original, Jim is a runaway ...

“James,” which reexamines Jim from Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in an attempt to give the character “control of his own story.” Everett also tackles the issue of ...

James is an incredible re-writing of Mark Twain’s 1884 American classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin that ... resourceful young white boy, Huck Finn. The same characters appear in both ...

James, inspired by Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, gives a voice to its escaped slave, Jim The hero of his new novel is - famously - the runaway slave Jim, in Mark Twain's The ...

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain is one of the cornerstones of American literature. "James," a new novel by Percival Everett, takes another look at the story and brings an ...

What novel has borne the racial freight of American letters like “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” a book credited with gifting us a national literature (not to mention a sense of humor)?

“James: A Novel” is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved Black man who befriends Huck and who Finn seeks to help escap ...

“James,” novelist Percival Everett’s retelling of “Huckleberry Finn,” which published Tuesday, not only makes the runaway the narrator, but it imagines him as a kind of Frederick ...