Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Variant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 16
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 18
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 18
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 12
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 17
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 2
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 21
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 31
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“There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 1.
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Context: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 43.
Source: The Adventures of Huck Finn
Context: So there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and aint't agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.
“To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 21
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
