The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic American novel by Mark Twain. It follows the adventures of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi River in search of freedom. Along the way, they encounter a variety of characters, including the King and Duke, two con men who try to swindle the people they meet. They also meet the Grangerfords, a wealthy family whose feud with the Shepherdsons leads to a violent confrontation. Huck and Jim eventually make it to Cairo, Illinois, where they plan to take a steamboat to the free states. However, they are separated when Jim is captured and sold back into slavery. Huck embarks on a daring mission to rescue Jim, and in the process, he learns valuable lessons about friendship, loyalty, and courage. In the end, Huck and Jim are reunited and make it to freedom.

By Mark Twain · First published 1884 · Genre: Adventure Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Regional Fiction · 43 chapters

Contents

• Chapter 1: Civilizing Huck.--Miss Watson.--Tom Sawyer Waits
• Chapter 2: The Boys Escape Jim.--Torn Sawyer's Gang.--Deep-laid Plans
• Chapter 3: A Good Going-over.--Grace Triumphant.--"One of Tom Sawyers's Lies"
• Chapter 4: Huck and the Judge.--Superstition
• Chapter 5: Huck's Father.--The Fond Parent.--Reform
• Chapter 6: He Went for Judge Thatcher.--Huck Decided to Leave.--Political Economy.--Thrashing Around
• Chapter 7: Laying for Him.--Locked in the Cabin.--Sinking the Body.--Resting
• Chapter 8: Sleeping in the Woods.--Raising the Dead.--Exploring the Island.--Finding Jim.--Jim's Escape.--Signs.--Balum
• Chapter 9: The Cave.--The Floating House
• Chapter 10: The Find.--Old Hank Bunker.--In Disguise
• Chapter 11: Huck and the Woman.--The Search.--Prevarication.--Going to Goshen
• Chapter 12: Slow Navigation.--Borrowing Things.--Boarding the Wreck.--The Plotters.--Hunting for the Boat
• Chapter 13: Escaping from the Wreck.--The Watchman.--Sinking
• Chapter 14: A General Good Time.--The Harem.--French
• Chapter 15: Huck Loses the Raft.--In the Fog.--Huck Finds the Raft.--Trash
• Chapter 16: Expectation.--A White Lie.--Floating Currency.--Running by Cairo.--Swimming Ashore
• Chapter 17: An Evening Call.--The Farm in Arkansaw.--Interior Decorations.--Stephen Dowling Bots.--Poetical Effusions
• Chapter 18: Colonel Grangerford.--Aristocracy.--Feuds.--The Testament.--Recovering the Raft.--The Wood--pile.--Pork and Cabbage
• Chapter 19: Tying Up Day--times.--An Astronomical Theory.--Running a Temperance Revival.--The Duke of Bridgewater.--The Troubles of Royalty
• Chapter 20: Huck Explains.--Laying Out a Campaign.--Working the Camp--meeting.--A Pirate at the Camp--meeting.--The Duke as a Printer
• Chapter 21: Sword Exercise.--Hamlet's Soliloquy.--They Loafed Around Town.--A Lazy Town.--Old Boggs.--Dead
• Chapter 22: Sherburn.--Attending the Circus.--Intoxication in the Ring.--The Thrilling Tragedy
• Chapter 23: Sold.--Royal Comparisons.--Jim Gets Home-sick
• Chapter 24: Jim in Royal Robes.--They Take a Passenger.--Getting Information.--Family Grief
• Chapter 25: Is It Them?--Singing the "Doxologer."--Awful Square--Funeral Orgies.--A Bad Investment
• Chapter 26: A Pious King.--The King's Clergy.--She Asked His Pardon.--Hiding in the Room.--Huck Takes the Money
• Chapter 27: The Funeral.--Satisfying Curiosity.--Suspicious of Huck,--Quick Sales and Small
• Chapter 28: The Trip to England.--"The Brute!"--Mary Jane Decides to Leave.--Huck Parting with Mary Jane.--Mumps.--The Opposition Line
• Chapter 29: Contested Relationship.--The King Explains the Loss.--A Question of Handwriting.--Digging up the Corpse.--Huck Escapes
• Chapter 30: The King Went for Him.--A Royal Row.--Powerful Mellow
• Chapter 31: Ominous Plans.--News from Jim.--Old Recollections.--A Sheep Story.--Valuable Information
• Chapter 32: Still and Sunday--like.--Mistaken Identity.--Up a Stump.--In a Dilemma
• Chapter 33: A Nigger Stealer.--Southern Hospitality.--A Pretty Long Blessing.--Tar and Feathers
• Chapter 34: The Hut by the Ash Hopper.--Outrageous.--Climbing the Lightning Rod.--Troubled with Witches
• Chapter 35: Escaping Properly.--Dark Schemes.--Discrimination in Stealing.--A Deep Hole
• Chapter 36: The Lightning Rod.--His Level Best.--A Bequest to Posterity.--A High Figure
• Chapter 37: The Last Shirt.--Mooning Around.--Sailing Orders.--The Witch Pie
• Chapter 38: The Coat of Arms.--A Skilled Superintendent.--Unpleasant Glory.--A Tearful Subject
• Chapter 39: Rats.--Lively Bed--fellows.--The Straw Dummy
• Chapter 40: Fishing.--The Vigilance Committee.--A Lively Run.--Jim Advises a Doctor
• Chapter 41: The Doctor.--Uncle Silas.--Sister Hotchkiss.--Aunt Sally in Trouble
• Chapter 42: Tom Sawyer Wounded.--The Doctor's Story.--Tom Confesses.--Aunt Polly Arrives.--Hand Out Them Letters
• Chapter 43: The Last.--Out of Bondage.--Paying the Captive.--Yours Truly, Huck Finn

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• The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson (1894)
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