The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as satire
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as satire Samuel Langhorne Clemens , more popularly known as Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American novelist and humorist. He wrote his first popular story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavers County in 1865. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequal Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) which is also called " the great American novel ". His another works include " The Innocent Abroad"(1869), Roughing It (1872), The Gilded Age (1873) and Life on the Mississippi (1883). Mark Twain was lauded as the greatest humorist of his age. William Faulkner called him the father of American Literature . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered the masterpiece of Mark Twain. Ernest Hemingway said, " All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain, called, the Huckleberry Finn ", he cautioned, "If you must read it you must stop where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boy