In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain returns to the small town of St Petersburg on the Mississippi. The resourceful Huck Finn, friend of Tom Sawyer, enriched beyond his dreams by his share in the reward for the capture of Injun Joe, is being 'civilised' by the Widow Douglas. But all is not well, and he finds it rough 'living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways' and when his brutal, drunken father returns to claim him, he escapes with Jim a runaway slave, and sails down the Mississippi on a raft. Related by Huck Finn himself, in the warm, rich language of the American South, the people they meet and the adventures they have are described in Mark Twain's own particular brand of humour and logic. Fast-moving and true to life, Huckleberry Finn captures the excitement of life on America's great river, and has justly earned its place in the affections of generations of children.
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