Today in History
On Feb. 18, 1885, Mark Twain published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel came out nine years after the character was first introduced to the public in Twain's 1876 novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
– Mark Twain's introduction to
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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