description: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN This is Twain's masterwork written at the height of his power. Twain himself refers to it as "a book of mine where a sound heart &amp; a deformed conscience come into collision &amp; conscience suffers defeat."The book contains belly-laughing humor intertwined with themes of profound moral significance. Huck, escaping from the confines of his existence on the shore, has found life to be "free and easy living on a raft" with Jim, a black man fleeing from slavery. When faced with the crucial decision to turn over Jim to his rightful owner, he studies the consequences, then says to himself, "All right, then, I'll go to hell."
language: English
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
titlecomplete: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
characters: Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Jim Upton
genres: Fiction, Adventure, School, Young Adult, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, High School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1248865
places: The United States of America, Hannibal, Missouri, Mississippi River, Missouri, St. Petersburg, Missouri
series: Adventures of Tom and Huck
publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Division