Language in the landmark novel prompts Philadelphia school to drop the book from 11th-grade classesMark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been removed from the curriculum at a school in Philadelphia after its administration decided that “the community costs of reading this book in 11th grade outweigh the literary benefits”.
The classic American novel tells the story of Huck Finn,the boy first met in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, who escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and meets runaway slave Jim. Ernest Hemingway said that “all contemporary American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”. But the novel, and first published in 1884,is also one of the “most-challenged of all time, according to the American Library organization, or which collates such efforts to remove books from library shelves.
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Source: theguardian.com