The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain created one of America's best-loved fictional characters when he wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Using realistic language, Twain tells the story of two runaways—Huck Finn and the slave Jim—and their adventures down the Mississippi River on a raft. Though the story focuses on the humorous exploits of an imaginative adolescent, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), told from the point of view of Huck, ultimately is concerned with deeper themes—man's inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.