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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Guide to Online ResourcesBy Jim ZwickAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain's most loved, most influential, and most controversial books. It was banned from the Concord Public Library in 1885, the year of its publication, and Huckleberry Finn ranks number five in the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s. But in 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.... All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Not surprisingly, Huckleberry Finn is one of Twain's books that is most thoroughly represented on the Web. It, along with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective -- three other books in which Huck Finn appears -- were among the first of Twain's books added to the Project Gutenberg etext library in 1993. A search for "Huckleberry Finn" on the Web will list thousands of pages, making it very difficult to find the information you need. This guide is intended to provide a more focused directory of online resources related to the novel. They range from information abo
should be banned for its racist content. itself? (Words can be destroyed by overuse or And on those occasions when Twain does venture to compare blacks and whites, the comparison is not conspicuously flattering to the whites. Things like: Mark Twain a "racist"! Isn't it about time we put this ridiculous notion to rest? automatically dismissed ... good with bad. When Huckleberry Finn was banned in 1885, officials at the Concord Public Library thought it was "rough, coarse and inelegant,... the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Written in the voice of its young narrator -- who rejects becoming "sivilized" on its first page -- and full of various dialects throughout, the book offended the literary sensibilities of the time. Twain redoubled the insult to the literary establishment by insisting that his books be sold door to door by subscription instead of through book stores. He appealed to the masses both in his language and by having his books brought directly to their homes. "My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine," Twain once wrote. "Everybody drinks water." I can see that it contains racist language,
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