Question: Jim is one of two major fictional characters in a classic novel first published in the United Kingdom in what year?

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The Light in the Forest: The Light in the Forest is a novel first published in 1953 by U.S. author Conrad Richter.  Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates historic figures and is based in historical fact related to the late eighteenth century and period of the American Revolutionary War.

Fields of Sleep: Fields of Sleep is a fantasy novel by E. C. Vivian.  It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1923 by Hutchinson.  In the United States, the novel first appeared in the magazine

Puckoon: Puckoon is a comic novel by Spike Milligan, first published in 1963.  It is his first full-length novel, and only major fictional work.  Set in 1924, it details the troubles brought to the fictional Irish village of Puckoon by the Partition of Ireland: the new border, due to the incompetence of the Boundary Commission, passes directly through the village, with most of the village placed in the independent Irish Free State, but with a significant portion to Northern Ireland.

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.

Ring of Terror (novel): Ring of Terror is a mystery-suspense novel by the British crime writer Michael Gilbert, first published in the United Kingdom in 1995 by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States by Carroll & Graf.  It was Gilbert's 28th novel and the first of three featuring his final set of recurring characters, Luke Pagan and Joe Narrabone.  Set in the reign of Edward VII, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was also the first of Gilbert's historical mysteries.  Along with its fictional characters and situations, there are references to actual events of the time, such as the Siege of Sidney Street, and Winston Churchill plays a minor role as Home Secretary.  Gilbert, who was appointed CBE in 1980, was a founder-member of the British Crime Writers' Association.  The Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master in 1988 and in 1990 he was presented Bouchercon's Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Swords of Lankhmar: The Swords of Lankhmar is a fantasy novel, first published 1968, by Fritz Leiber, featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.  It is chronologically the fifth volume of the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters.  The book is an expansion of Leiber's earlier novella "Scylla's Daughter", which was published originally in the magazine "Fantastic Stories of Imagination" for May 1961.  The full novel first published in paperback format during 1968 by Ace Books company, which reprinted the title numerous times through 1986; a later paperback edition was issued by Dark Horse (2008).  It has been published in the United Kingdom by Mayflower Books (1970) and Grafton (1986, 1987).  The first hardcover edition was issued by Rupert Hart-Davis during June 1969; a later hardcover edition was issued by Gregg Press during December 1977.  The book has also been gathered together with others in the series into various omnibus editions; "Swords' Masters" (1990), "Return to Lankhmar" (1997), and "The Second Book of Lankhmar" (2001).

Arthur C. Clarke Award: The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.  It is named after British author Arthur C. Clarke, who gave a grant to establish the award in 1987.  The book is chosen by a panel of judges from the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation, and a third organisation, which as of 2012 is the Sci-Fi-London film festival.  The award has been described as "the UK's most prestigious science fiction prize".

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The 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, a friend of Tom Sawyer the narrator of two other Twain novels ("Tom Sawyer Abroad" and "Tom Sawyer, Detective").  It is a direct sequel to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".

Two-party system: A two-party system is a party system where two major political parties dominate the government.  One of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the "majority" or "governing party" while the other is the "minority" or "opposition party".  Around the world, the term has different senses.  For example, in the United States, Jamaica, and Malta, the sense of "two party system" describes an arrangement in which all or nearly all elected officials belong to one of the only two major parties, and third parties rarely win any seats in the legislature.  In such arrangements, two-party systems are thought to result from various factors like winner takes all election rules.  In such systems, while chances for third party candidates winning election to major national office are remote, it is possible for groups within the larger parties, or in opposition to one or both of them, to exert influence on the two major parties.  In contrast, in the United Kingdom and Australia and in other parliamentary systems and elsewhere, the term "two-party system" is sometimes used to indicate an arrangement in which two major parties dominate elections but in which there are viable third parties which do win seats in the legislature, and in which the two major parties exert proportionately greater influence than their percentage of votes would suggest.

Three Comrades (novel): Three Comrades (German: "Drei Kameraden" ) is a novel first published in 1936 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.  It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War's French-German front.  He shares these experiences with Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz, his two comrades with whom he runs an auto-repair shop in late 1920s Berlin (probably).  Remarque wrote the novel in exile and it was first published in Dutch translation as "Drie kameraden", with English translation following soon in "Good Housekeeping" from January to March 1937 and in the book form in the same year.  First German language edition was published in 1938 by exile publisher "Querido" in Amsterdam, but the novel was published in Germany only in 1951.

Supporting paragraphs: Jim (Huckleberry Finn) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Answer: 1884