The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Overview Critic: Guy A. Cardwell Source: Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd ed., edited by Jim Kamp, St. James Press, 1994 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 …
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…s towering reputation is properly attributable to the combination of many elements, some planned, some fortuitous. At this time, it would seem that no other American novel has been so suspected and so controverted, and perhaps that no other has maintained its eminence so well. Source: Guy A. Cardwell, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Overview," in Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd ed., edited by Jim Kamp, St. James Press, 1994. Source Database: Literature Resource Center