Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared ... I heard that word or watched the class laugh at Jim. . . ." Champions of the novel reply that it ...

"James," a novel by Percival Everett, fills that gap by adding what Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" left out ... "James" is told from Jim's point of view and recasts many ...

Huckleberry ... him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.

“Try ‘dat be,’” Jim says. “That would be the correct ... Even if you haven’t read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” since high school, you’ll catch Everett’s reenactments ...

[Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim fall in with a pair of low-grade con artists. One fancies ...

1 JAMES (Doubleday, $28). By Percival Everett. A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view ...

1 JAMES (Doubleday, $28). By Percival Everett. A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view of Jim as he flees from enslavement. 2 ONYX STORM DELUXE EDITION ...