The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain

Mark Twain`s tale of a boy`s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the `sivilizing` Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous `Duke` and `Dauphin`. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck`s struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.