“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences ...

“I have no liking for novels or stories,” Mark Twain ... young Twain knew some Dickens novels by heart. Echoes of Our Mutual Friend can be found in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." ...

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic ... and is an internationally recognized Twain scholar. American Experience spoke with her about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.