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Huckleberry Finn
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Classic American novel by Mark Twain, published in 1884, following the adventures of Huck Finn and Jim along the Mississippi River, notable for its depiction of race and freedom in antebellum America.
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Used for: Assigned reading in a graduate seminar on foundational 19th century texts
Praised: Foundational 19th century text that confronts difficult historical language a...
"I taught a graduate seminar at one point on foundational 19th century texts, and one of the texts I assigned in the class was Huckleberry Finn. And a lot of the students said they wouldn't read Huckleberry Finn because they knew it had language in..."
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