Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The

I was wondering what was wrong with the answer choice B. Most replies simply stated 'B' as awkward. I wanted to understand further, so I did some research and have come up with an explanation which was convincing to me.

The usage "same year of publication as The Adventures...." is incorrect because 'as' is used to compare similar things. Here we are comparing the 'year' with 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' which is a book. I feel a more appropriate usage would have been "same
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