Huck & Jim Discussing Solomon

Huck & Jim Discuss Whether King Solomon Was the World’s Wisest Man

The conversations between Huck and Jim about King Solomon are among the most humorous and linguistically complex passages in Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The literary lens of Polyglossia helps

First Edition, 1885

Illustrations of The 1885 First Edition of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain hired E. W. Kemble to illustrate the 1884 First Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,* understanding how important that the drawings would be to bringing visual images of the

Poe was in the second class

Remembering the Positively Poe Conference at the University of Virginia

I first published this article on the Edgar Allan Poe Museum Website (www.poemuseum.org) on 7/28/2016. It is being republished here on Litchatte.com with the permission of the Museum In 1818,