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Many readers would claim that 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches' or 'The Man with the Twisted Lip' was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face' and 'The Problem of Thor Bridge'. It is just as well that in the end we...

"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminis...

Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is also running away. Together they travel by raft down the Mississippi, experien...