Mark Twain's "Huck Finn"

On this day (February 18th) in 1885, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

was first published.

Read the whole book - free - online, courtesy of the University of Virginia.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
- Notebook, 1885

 

 From Mark Twain Quotes 

PBS has an interactive Mark Twain Scrapbook - pretty neat!

Read Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens) biography at the Official Mark Twain website.