The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : U. S. Fiction may be said to have truly arrived with the emergence of Mark Twain (1835-1910), the pseudonym for Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His work symbolised a breaking-away from the hitherto dominant influence of the eastern U.S. and transcendentalist philosophy, and thereby provided the impetus for the further development … Continue reading Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Novel Summary) →