<Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Tom Sawyer Abroad </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Text </Th> <Td> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at Wikisource </Td> </Tr> <P> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885 . Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism . It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . </P> <P> The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River . Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism . </P>

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