Wednesday, November 08, 2017

The 1885 Reviews of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


The San Francisco Chronicle reviewed Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on March 15, 1885:
What can be said of a man of Mr. Clemens’s wit, ability and position deliberately imposing upon an unoffending public a piece of careless hackwork in which a few good things are dropped amid a mass of rubbish, and concerning which he finds it necessary to give notice that ‘persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot’?
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