On Dec 18, 3:54pm, Hiroshi Shiota wrote: > Subject: When was Huckleberry Finn was written? > I am very comfused because there are many theories about Mark Twain's > creative process of Huckleberry Finn. I have read some book about it > (Mr.Blair's, Mr.Cummings' , Mr. Quirk's and Mr. Doyno's), but I would like > to know when Huckleberry Finn was written. > Thanks for any info, "The quick success of _Tom Sawyer_ in 1876 moved Mark Twain to begin a sequel immediatedly . . . By the end of the summer of 1876, he had written at least as far as chapter 16, in which a steamboat smashes Huck and Jim's raft . . . Three years later he resumed the story, carrying it to around chapter 21 . . . He wrote the book's second half around late 1882 and early 1883, adding significant passages to chapters 12-14 . . . he pronounced _HF_ done in the summer of 1883 . . . Through the following year, he edited the book . . . published December 1884" (_MT A-Z_, Oxford, 228-29) Also see Doyno's Preface in _Writing _HF__. thanks, larry marshburne