Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:A Scrutiny of Racial Prejudice

James R.Dickenson once observed,“It is the fate of great literature to bmisread and misunderstood as well as savored and appreciated”(The Guardian,April 14,1985).A typical case in point is Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huck-leberry Finn.Perhaps it is the most controversial book in American literaryhistory.On the one hand,it met with the most unfavorable reception after itsappearance.Many of its first readers and critics were shocked by its franknessin expression and its straightforward attacks on the existing institutions