![]() ![]() This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. Its sophisticated treatment of serious themes such as the evils of slavery, the individual versus society, and the conflicting impulses of human nature, make it as vital and important today as when it was first published more than one hundred and thirty years ago. ![]() One of the first major novels written in an American vernacular, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an essential part of the national identity. Petersburg, a fictional town much like Twain's hometown of. The colorful characters and dramatic situations they encounter along the way-from bloodthirsty thieves lurking in an abandoned steamboat to a pair of aristocratic conmen dead set on robbing Arkansas blind-draw the two escapees closer together, until Huck is forced to make a fateful choice between Jim’s freedom and his own salvation. A sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in the 1830s or 1840s. Fleeing his drunken father and the civilizing influence of the Widow Douglas, Huck and the runaway slave Jim pilot a log raft down the mighty Mississippi River. As they make their way along the Mississippi, they meet a motley collection of self-important characters and try their best to. Tom Sawyer’s best friend, Huckleberry Finn, takes center stage in this classic tale of boyhood adventure. Mark Twains immortal comic tale of the fraud, hypocrisy and bigotry of adults as seen through the eyes of an innocent boy and his friend Jim, a runaway slave. ![]() Mark Twain’s masterpiece and the greatest of American novels. ![]()
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