The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
Mark Twain's classic novel,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a  teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave,  Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters  who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.Though some of the situations inHuckleberry Finnare funny in themselves (the cockeyed  Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly in Huck's  unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas  after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and  the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had  been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock  in dead people."  Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and  injustice that makesThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finna frequently funny book with a serious  message.