The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain´s tale of a boy´s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the ´sivilizing´ Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous ´Duke´ and ´Dauphin´. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck´s struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim...