Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble, is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism.

Written by Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a red-haired American humorist, writer, and lecturer, 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 sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River.

Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.

Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics since its publication.

It is criticized upon release because of its coarse language and will become even more controversial in the twentieth century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger", despite strong arguments that the protagonist, and the tenor of the book, is anti-racist.

Twain will win a worldwide audience for his stories of youthful adventures, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which introduces native American humor to the literary world.