![]() ![]() ![]() It has been translated into more than 50 languages and published in more than 700 editions around the globe. Proof of the book's enduring popularity is not hard to find: it sells an estimated 200,000 copies a year, dwarfing sales by all but a handful of contemporary novelists. Of the 30-plus books written by Mark Twain (who died a century ago this spring), Huckleberry Finn remains the work that elevates this one-time rustic humorist into the ranks of literary genius. For uncounted millions of readers and scholars, it still stands as the greatest novel yet written by an American. One hundred thirty-five years after its first publication in the United States, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1883) continues to enlarge its international claim as a masterpiece. Ron Powers is the author of Mark Twain: A Life and Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain. Mark Twain, left, with John Lewis, a lifelong friend and inspiration for the character Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Photo: ) ![]()
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