To escape from his violent and drunken father, a 13-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Huckleberry Finn, fakes his own death and floats away on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave. In a series of unforgettable adventures narrated by Huck, they encounter a cross-section of characters from slave-hunters, and con men to feuding aristocrats. This was the first major American novel to be written in the vernacular, a dark and funny satire that exposes the bigotry and hypocrisy of provincial America during Mark Twain's lifetime.

Author Biography

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, where he apprenticed with a printer. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before becoming a writer.