... bound by European conventions. In his 1935 book, The Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway wrote that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.... All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Interactions between the novel and American culture continue to influence critical perspectives ... "N-word" hundreds of times should be banned from school reading lists? In a recent survey of attempts to ban books in the United States, the American Library Association ranked Huckleberry Finn...

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