Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (
1884) by
Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first
Great American Novels. It was also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Realism or the vernacular, or common speech, being told in the first person by the
eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of
Tom Sawyer (hero of three other Mark Twain books). The book was first published in 1884.
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