Jim is one of two major fictional characters in a classic novel first published in the United Kingdom in what year?
Jim (Huckleberry Finn) Jim is one of two major fictional characters in the classic novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. The book chronicles his and Huckleberry's raft journey down the Mississippi River in the antebellum Southern United States. Jim is an adult black slave who has fled; "Huck," a 13-year-old white boy, joins him in spite of his own conventional understanding and the law.
The Macdermots of Ballycloran The Macdermots of Ballycloran is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 and completed by June 1845. However, it was not published until 1847. The novel was "an abysmal failure with the reading public."