"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

Criticism about: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), also known as: Samuel Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Sieur Louis de Conte, Quentin Curtius Snodgrass, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
Mark Twain conceived of what became Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the summer of 1875, began to write the following summer, and after long interruptions completed a manuscript with a rush in 1883. It was to be a boys' book, a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; yet even the first reviewers saw some ambiguity about its proper audience. What Twain himself seems never fully to have understood is the extent to which the book moved during composition towards the adult and the serious or how superior it is to his other works.
Appealing to a broad spectrum of readers, the book gained an immediate popular success.…