Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain's 1885 work, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The book has been popular with young readers since its publication, and is taken as a sequel to the comparatively innocuous 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'. It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. Although the Southern society it satirized was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book immediately became controversial, and has remained so to this day.