Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

in a sentence

I watch as she puts checkmarks next to the books: The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, poems by Emily Dickinson (any), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.†  (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

Huckleberry Finn or The Grapes of Wrath?†  (source) Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave, 2013

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, for example; they were an education in condescension to women—all by themselves, they created sexual stereotypes!†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

A gray-haired couple paused to peer into the Huckleberry Finn house but didn't bother to walk in.†  (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Twain sends Huck and the escaped slave Jim down the Mississippi on a raft.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Huckleberry Finn he had read as a child, but he couldn't remember much of it.†  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995

—Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Dustfinger and Farid were waiting for them in the parking lot when they left the hotel.†  (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003

The homeboys and I looked like something out of Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer.†  (source) Luis J. Rodriguez, Always Running, 1992

Uncle Willie was nodding at the fire, and Bailey had escaped back to the calm adventures of Huckleberry Finn.†  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

Huckleberry Finn they saved for me until the third grade, tantalizingly holding it back as if it contained the very secrets of life.†  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

But a boy, Huck Finn, and an older man, the escaped slave Jim, and their raft could only make the story we know as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by being on that particular river, the Mississippi, traveling through that particu-lar landscape and those particular communities, at a given moment in history.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Whenever I think of the word "empathy," I think of a small boy named Huckleberry Finn contemplating his friend and runaway slave, Jim.†  (source) Jay Allison, et al., This I Believe, 2007

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Fenoglio said nothing for a long time after Mo had finished his story.†  (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003