This classic novel by Mark Twain follows the mischievous adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a young boy living in the American South in the mid-1800s. Along the way, Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim and together they embark on a journey down the Mississippi River. Along the
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. It is commonly named among the Great American Novels, and it is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. Being the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other later Twain novels and a friend of Tom Sawyer.