Escaping a drunken father, Huck Finn fakes his own death and lights out down the Mississippi on a raft, joined by Jim, a man escaping slavery. Their journey downriver, through feuds, frauds and moral crossroads, became the book Hemingway said all American literature comes from.
It is funnier than its reputation and more serious too: a boy deciding, against everything his society taught him, that his friend’s freedom matters more than the rules.
Twain’s masterpiece, complete and unabridged.
