Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

About the book

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. It is commonly named among the Great American Novels, and it is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. Being the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other later Twain novels and a friend of Tom Sawyer.

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On screen

This book has been adapted for the screen 12 times — from 1918 to 2012.

• FilmMud2012·dir. Jeff NicholsIMDb
• FilmThe Adventures of Huck Finn1993·dir. Stephen SommersIMDb
• FilmThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1960·dir. Michael CurtizIMDb
• FilmThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1939·dir. Richard ThorpeIMDb
• FilmHuckleberry Finn1931·dir. Norman TaurogIMDb
• SeriesHuckleberry no Bōken1976IMDb
• FilmHopelessly Lost1973·dir. Georgiy DaneliyaIMDb
• FilmHuck and Tom1918·dir. William Desmond TaylorIMDb
• SeriesHuckleberry Finn Monogatari1994IMDb
• FilmHuckleberry Finn1920·dir. William Desmond TaylorIMDb
• SeriesHuckleberry Finn and His Friends1980IMDb
• SeriesThe New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1968IMDb

Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →

Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.9 across 246 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Humour average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.

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