Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Often called the great American novel, Twain’s masterpiece sends Huck Finn and the escaped slave Jim down the Mississippi on a raft, fleeing the constraints of civilized society. Told in Huck’s vernacular voice, it turns a boy’s adventure into a searching moral drama about conscience, freedom, and the racism of the antebellum South. Funny, lyrical, and unsettling by turns, its confrontation of American hypocrisy made it both a classic and one of the most debated books in the canon.