Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is first published in the United Kingdom and Canada on December 10, 1884, followed by the first U.S. edition on February 18, 1885. It was an extraordinary, celebrated and controversial book for its time. Written throughout in vernacular English and full of stark social commentary on racism and slavery in the pre-Civil War South,.
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