![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sorry to disappoint you, but these aren’t a real Duke and King. Keep reading for a deep dive into the infamous conmen, the Duke and King in Mark Twain’s great American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “Yes, gentlemen, you see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin’, exiled, trampled-on and sufferin’ rightful King of France.” His companion is an older man in his 70s who claims to be the self-styled ‘dauphin, Louis XVII,’ going on to say: The book is set in a Southern antebellum society and is known to be a scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism, as well as for its colorful descriptions of people and places along the Mississippi River.Īs the Duke tells a sad tale of his hopeless circumstances, with him is his companion who shares a similar pitiful tale, even going so far as to one-up him. The work is among the first in American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. So says the self-proclaimed ‘Duke of Bridgewater’ as he introduces himself to Huck and Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the direct sequel of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ![]()
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