National Book Award-winning novel, 'James,' Percival Everett grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well ...

GREENWICH — Huckleberry Finn is a legend in American fiction, but he took his famed trip down the Mississippi River alongside a runaway slave named Jim, who until recently did not have his own ...

Yet Huck Finn has been in trouble almost continuously ... feel every time I heard that word or watched the class laugh at Jim. . . ." Champions of the novel reply that it is a satire, a scathing ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” has always been one of my favorite books so I was very excited to read, Percival ...

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 himself a king and the other a duke.

Huckleberry Finn has been subject to removal and bowdlerization ... a television production for CBS expunged Jim and any mention of slavery from the story. The American Library Association lists ...

Percival Everett’s “James” is loosely based on Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," and where it diverges, it excels.

An unhoused Missouri teenager and an undocumented Mauritanian migrant drift down the Mississippi River together on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom in this contemporary retelling of Mark ...

Mark Twain is the theme of this year’s Community Read, hosted by Geneva Reads. For the month of March, the local literacy coalition will focus on one of Twain’s best-known characters, Huck Finn — and ...

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing ... plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold.

We begin our adventure by the banks of the Mississippi River where we see life through the eyes of a young boy named Huck Finn Huck is a ... father and travels with Jim a runaway boy He learns ...