WEEK 14: The
American Novel
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was to have been a
sequel to a boys' book, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
That book made Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. "Mark Twain") a fortune.
A sequel would continue Clemens' good fortunes, and he needed it. Living
in grandeur in "the Hartford house" at 351 Farmington Avenue in Hartford,
Connecticut, Clemens was nursing enormous living and entertainment expenses and
feeding the funding trough for many of his "get rich" schemes. He had
begun the draft of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1876, as soon as he
published Tom Sawyer, but after parking Huckleberry Finn at the point on
Jackson's Island, just down stream from St. Petersburg (Hannibal), Missouri, he
set the manuscript aside without a clue as to how to continue it, and "waited
for the well to fill back up." He didn't pick up the manuscript again until 1882
following a trip back to the Mississippi River..
Textual Readings:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (pp. 248 -
431)
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American humorist and
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Mark Twain
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Writing Assignment for Week 3:
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