The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
dc.creator	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
dc.subject	Runaway children—Fiction; Fugitive slaves—Fiction; Friendship—Fiction; Race relations—Fiction; Mississippi River—Fiction	LCSH
dc.description	Huck Finn, trying to escape his abusive father, teams up with runaway slave Jim as they raft down the Mississippi River together in the 1840s.
dc.publisher	Dover Publications
dc.contributor	Mark Twain
dc.date	05-26-1994	W3CDTF
dc.type	Text	DCMIType
dc.format	Softcover book, 224 pages long, 0.8 x 5.2 x 8.5 in.
dc.identifier	ISBN-13 978-0486280615
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Huckleberry-Finn-Mark-Twain/dp/0486280616/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461605489&sr=1-1&keywords=huckleberry+finn
dc.language	en-US	RFC4646
dc.relation	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; originally published by Charles L. Webster and Co., New York: 1885
dc.coverage	1885-1994
dc.rights	All rights reserved

 

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” tells the story of Huck Finn, a white boy who runs away from his abusive father with Jim, a runaway slave. Together, the two travel down the Mississippi River on a raft, encountering racism and attitudes toward slavery and freedom in the American South of the 1840s. Despite its negative attitude toward slavery, the book has been frequently banned for racism and offensive language (Banned Books Week) due to Twain’s unflinching portrayal of 1840s Missouri and the realities of slavery.

 

Works cited: “Banned Books That Shaped America.” Bannedbooksweek.org. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/censorship/bannedbooksthatshapedamerica