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Topical Currents

Huck Finn’s America

Photo Credit: Randy Johnson
Author Andew Levy

02/18/15 - Today at 1pm on Topical Currents: Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finncould be considered the seminal work of American fiction. It’s the most recognizable title in American literature. Huck Finn is told in the first-person, through the eyes of an adolescent white orphan traveling with a runaway slave upon the Mississippi River. We’ll speak with Andrew Levy, author of Huck Finn’s America . . . Topical Currents, Wednesday at 1pm on WLRN.

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