The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

• Publisher: G&D Media
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781722503062
• eBook ISBN:
  9781722524111
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

This beautifully designed unabridged original edition of the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is one of the first American novels to be written in vernacular English. This tale of freedom and friendship depicted through a boy's journey down the Mississippi River, conveyed both the voice and the experience of the American frontier as no other book had done before.Twain created one of literature's most unforgettable characters in Tom Sawyer's cohort, Huckleberry Finn. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas he travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with his friend Jim, a runaway slave. In this scalding social satire they embark on a series of adventures amidst the inherent racism and corruption of the pre-Civil War South. We encounter through Huck's eyes and voice the perils he and Jim face, including fog, feuding families, and unscrupulous rogues. Beneath the adventurous exploits are the more serious undercurrents of slavery, adult authority and, above all, the struggle that Huck faces between his inherent goodness and the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep, long lasting friendship with Jim. Huck who thrives in a life without rules and order must confront his beliefs about friendship and turn away from the life he once knew. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist [the United States] has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Chapter I: I Discover Moses and the Bulrushers
• Chapter II: Our Gang’s Dark Oath
• Chapter III: We Ambuscade the A-Rabs
• Chapter IV: The Hair-Ball Oracle
• Chapter V: Pap Starts in on a New Life
• Chapter VI: Pap Struggles with the Death Angel
• Chapter VII: I Fool Pap and Get Away
• Chapter VIII: I Spare Miss Watson’s Jim
• Chapter IX: The House of Death Floats by
• Chapter X: What Comes of Handlin’ Snake-Skin
• Chapter XI: They’re After us!
• Chapter XII: “Better Let Blame Well Alone”
• Chapter XIII: Honest Loot from the “Walter Scott”
• Chapter XIV: Was Solomon Wise?
• Chapter XV: Fooling Poor Old Jim
• Chapter XVI: The Rattlesnake-Skin Does its Work
• Chapter XVII: The Grangerfords Take me in
• Chapter XVIII: Why Harney Rode Away for his Hat
• Chapter XIX: The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard
• Chapter XX: What Royalty Did to Parkville
• Chapter XXI: An Arkansaw Difficulty
• Chapter XXII: Why the Lynching Bee Failed
• Chapter XXIII: The Orneriness of Kings
• Chapter XXIV: The King Turns Parson
• Chapter XXV: All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle
• Chapter XXVI: I Steal the King’s Plunder
• Chapter XXVII: Dead Peter has his Gold
• Chapter XXVIII: Overreaching Don’t Pay
• Chapter XXIX: I Light Out in the Storm
• Chapter XXX: The Gold Saves the Thieves
• Chapter XXXI: You Can’t Pray a I..Ie
• Chapter XXXII: I Have a New Name
• Chapter XXXIII: The Pitiful Ending of Royalty
• Chapter XXXIV: We Cheer up Jim
• Chapter XXXV: Dark, Deep-Laid Plans
• Chapter XXXVI: Trying to Help Jim
• Chapter XXXVII: Jim Gets his Witch-Pie
• Chapter XXXVIII: “Here a Captive Heart Busted”
• Chapter XXXIX: Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters
• Chapter XL: A Mixed-Up and Splendid Rescue
• Chapter XLI: “Must ’a’ Been Sperits”
• Chapter XLII: Why they Didn’t Hang Jim
• Chapter the Last: Nothing More to Right