Hiding from his drunken, tyrannical father, wild boy Huckleberry Finn escapes to Jackson's Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together, they hope to escape 'sivilization' by sailing a raft down the Mississippi in a last bid for freedom.
The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. …