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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(or, in more recent editions,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
) is a novel by
Mark Twain
, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the
Great American Novels
, the work is among the first in major
American literature
to be written throughout in
vernacular
English, characterized by
local color regionalism
. It is told in the
first person
by
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn
, a friend of
Tom Sawyer
and narrator of two other Twain novels (
Tom Sawyer Abroad
and
Tom Sawyer, Detective
). It is a direct sequel to
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
.
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