Mark Twain · 1884 · Adventure
Huck fakes his own death and rafts down the Mississippi with Jim, a man escaping slavery. Twain wrote it in dialect, on purpose, and the result is at once one of the funniest and one of the most morally serious novels in American literature.
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Mark TwainAmerican · 1835–1910
Mark Twain (1835–1910) was the first great American literary voice — writing in vernacular American English rather than imitation-British — and arguably the most technically influential.
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