Huckleberry Finn

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He is trying to read “normal” books unrelated to financial markets, such as Shakespeare’s plays and Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Jay Parini, in his review, observed that the author of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was the man who “embodied, or perhaps invented, the American voice, with its granular lyricism and rough-edged, transgressive humor.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Allen’s first impression of the eventual Oscar winner was, he explained, as “if Huckleberry Finn was a gorgeous young woman.”

From Los Angeles Times

The point was driven home for me by a scene in Percival Everett’s timely 2024 novel “James,” a rendition of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” told from the perspective of the title character, an escaped slave.

From Salon

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Twain grew up in the slaveholding community of Hannibal, Mo., a town he would immortalize in “Huckleberry Finn” and its prequel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

From Los Angeles Times