Huck decides to go downriver with Jim to Cairo, in the free state of Illinois. He settles on Jackson's Island, where he reunites with Miss Watson's slave Jim, who ran away after overhearing she was planning to sell him. To escape his father, Huck elaborately fakes his own murder and sets off downriver. When this fails, Pap kidnaps Huck and imprisons him in a cabin in the woods. His father, ' Pap', an abusive alcoholic, returns to town and tries to appropriate Huck's fortune. The women attempt to civilize him, but Huck prefers to have adventures with his friend Tom Sawyer. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi River, during the 1830s–1840s, Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn has come into a considerable sum of money following The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is placed under the strict guardianship of the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson.

Kemble in the original 1884 edition of the book

Throughout the 20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to both its perceived use of racial stereotypes and its frequent use of the racial slur ' nigger'. The book was widely criticized upon release because of its extensive use of coarse language and racial epithet. Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism and freedom. It is also known for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. The book is noted for 'changing the course of children's literature' in the United States for the 'deeply felt portrayal of boyhood'. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels ( Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at WikisourceĪdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.Ĭommonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism.

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