Few books in the American literary canon have been both as influential and as thoroughly debated as Mark Twain's 1885 novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Shortly after its publication, it was banned from the Concord Public Library by a committee that found it "more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Twain's use of dialect and first person narration from an unschooled child's perspective were s

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