“Huckleberry Finn” allows White readers to talk about slavery while remaining at the center of the story. Like Huck, we can feel warmed by bravely resolving to go to hell for Jim without ...

[Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim fall in with a pair of low-grade con artists. One fancies ...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is required reading in over 70 percent of American high schools and is among the most taught works of American literature. Yet Huck Finn has been in trouble almost ...

So, Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had wrote the oath on, and read it. It swore every boy to stick to the band, and ...

On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for ...