December 10: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published (1884)

Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in Canada and England on December 10, 1884. It was a sequel to "The adventures of Tom Sawyer", which was published in 1876.  The sequel does not have the definite article "the" in the title unlike the Tom Sawyer book and a critic explained that this is because Huckleberry Finn's adventure was not complete or never fulfilled in the book. Both books' background was places along the Mississippi River. Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His books are filled with American wit and humour. William Falkner called Mark Twain the father of American literature.