New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the...years since the publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) Mark Twain has been neatly categorized as America's best-loved author and his major works as American classics; i.e. he has been safely diffused. The fact is that Mark Twain was never just an avuncular storyteller from Hannibal, Missouri. He was also a perceptive and radical critic of the..... More