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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's great American novel follows Huck Finn, a runaway boy, and Jim, an escaped slave, as they raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom. Told in Huck's unforgettable vernacular voice, it is by turns funny, harrowing, and deeply humane — a landmark work that laid the foundation for modern American literature.
Fleeing his drunken father and the stifling respectability of a small Missouri town, Huckleberry Finn takes to the Mississippi on a makeshift raft with Jim, a man escaping slavery. What begins as a boyish adventure becomes a profound journey down the river and into the conscience of a nation, as the pair encounter feuding aristocrats, con men, thieves, frauds, and the casual cruelties of an antebellum South. Twain writes in Huck's own ragged dialect, letting the boy puzzle out right from wrong without benefit of pulpit or schoolroom. His growing loyalty to Jim — and his willingness to "go to hell" rather than betray him — gives the novel its moral heart. Hailed by Hemingway as the source of all modern American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains at once a rollicking picaresque, a savage satire of slavery and hypocrisy, and an enduring American myth of freedom on the open river.
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