On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Tony Powers wrote: > Can anyone tell me the year in which Huck Finn is set (not written)? > The title page states "Forty to Fifty Years Ago". The University of California 1985 paperback edition of _Huck Finn_ elaborates in its endnote on p. 372: "sometime between about 1835 and 1845". Twain had changed the date from "forty years ago" in 1884 to agree with the sequel _H. F. and Tom Sawyer among the Indians_. Larry Marshburne ([log in to unmask])