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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.

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Historical Context of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Full Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Where Written: Hartford, Connecticut, and Quarry Farm, located in Elmira, New York
When Published: 1884 in England; 1885 in the United States of America
Literary Period: Social realism (Reconstruction Era in United States)
Genre: Children’s novel / satirical novel
Setting: On and around the Mississippi River in the American South
Climax: Jim is sold back into bondage by the duke and king
Antagonist: Pap, the duke and king, society in general
Point of View: First person limited, from Huck Finn’s perspective

Extra Credit for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Dialect. Mark Twain composed Huckleberry using not a high literary style but local dialects that he took great pains to reproduce with his idiosyncratic spelling and grammar.

Reception. A very important 20th-century novelist, Ernest Hemingway, considered Huckleberry Finn to be the best and most influential American novel ever written.