The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
First published 1876 · English · 327 pages
- Novels
- Adventure
- Satire and humour
Huckleberry Finn, a poor boy in a Mississippi River town, tells his own story in a plain, lively voice. Escaping a violent father and the efforts of respectable people to civilise him, he drifts down the river on a raft with Jim, a man who has run away from slavery. Their journey brings them into contact with con men, feuding families and many other people along the shore.
The novel is both an adventure and a moral education, as Huck questions what he has been taught about right and wrong. It is a landmark of American fiction for its voice and its satire, and it remains debated for its language and its treatment of race.
Quotes
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHORPER G. G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers.
A tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on.
Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then, but I didn’t mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn’t particular.