In hiding from his drunken and tyrannical father, Huck Finn escapes to Jackson s Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together the boys set off on a raft down the Mississippi, in a daring bid for freedom from so-called sivilization .
Action-packed and crammed with vibrant characters and incidents. Huckleberry Finn catchers more vividly than any other novel the comedy, toerror, resilience and spontaneity of boyhood. Moren than a mere sequel to Tom Sawyer, it is Mark Twain s masterpiece and a great American novel.
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