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Huckleberry FinnHuckleberry Finn
A runaway boy and Jim, an escaped enslaved man, raft down the Mississippi toward freedom, Twain’s funny, furious, vernacular masterpiece, and the river that runs through American literature.
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The book American literature grew out of, funny, lawless, and quietly radical, as a boy’s conscience wrestles a whole society and slowly wins. Told in a voice no one had written before.
SettingThe Mississippi, 1840s
The pre-Civil-War South along the Mississippi, where slavery was law and a boy was taught that helping an enslaved man escape was a sin, a moral world Twain sets a child against.
On screen & beyond
- Several Hollywood films (1939, 1960, 1993)