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My favorite of Huck Finn’s quotes, “Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.” Tell ‘em, Huckleberry.
M ark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom, just like MLK quotes. Born Samuel Clemens, Twain was a very successful ...
There is more irony in D.J. Tice's column ("At least keep these two books as part of your personal curriculum," Feb. 18) than the famous passage he quotes from "Huck Finn" or than Boo Radley being ...
Huckleberry Finn gets trigger warning for university students over character's use of the N-word. Exeter University has put a 'trigger warning' on Mark Twain's best-known novel ...
James, like Huckleberry Finn, is funny. When he talks to other Black people, Jim has no regional dialect, but to keep the white folks happy, he speaks to them in the over-the-top slave dialect that ...
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain is one of the cornerstones of American literature. "James," a new novel by Percival Everett, takes another look at the story and brings an ...