The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

About this Book

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English. The story is told in the first person by Huckleberry Finn, who fakes his own death to escape his violent father and journeys down the Mississippi River on a raft alongside Jim, a runaway slave seeking freedom in the Northern states.