The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain——Huck Finn escapes his violent father and meets Jim, who has fled slavery; together they travel down the Mississippi on a raft. Among river towns, feuding families, swindlers, and recurring dangers, Huck must weigh the rules he has been taught against friendship and his own conscience. Mark Twain combines a boy’s lively first-person adventure with humor and sharp satire of slavery, racism, and social hypocrisy, making freedom the journey’s central concern.