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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" |
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Interesting Facts About Mark Twain and
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| It took Mark Twain seven years to complete Huck Finn. He had writer's block and put the project aside at least three times. He also was writing Life on the Mississippi at the same time. He had been a steamboat pilot as a young man, and knew the river well. Twain also knew about running away to the West, as Huck intends to do. He had done just that to avoid military service in the Civil War. Twain claimed he never wrote fewer than 2,600 words per day when he was working on Huck Finn. Sometimes he wrote 4,000 words. Huck Finn was first published in serial form in London. Twain tried to write a sequel of Huck Finn a number of times, but he never published them. The theme was "Huck and Tom Go West." He wanted to concentrate again on the issue of slavery, especially the sexual fears of white people. Twain wrote most of Huck Finn in Hartford, though he also worked on it at his wife's family home in Elmira, NY, where he wrote in a gazebo behind the main house in the summers.
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