The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Discover Moses and the bulrushers

Our gang's dark oath

We ambuscade the A-rabs

Hair-ball oracle

Pap starts in on a new life

Pap struggles with the death angel

I fool pap and get away

I spare Mis Watson's Jim

House of death floats by

What comes of handlin' snake-skin

They're after us!

"Better let blame well alone"

Honest loot from the "Walter Scott"

Was Solomon wise?

Fooling poor old Jim

Rattlesnake-skin does the work

Grangerfords take me in

Why Harney rode away for his hat

Duke and the Dauphin come aboard

What royalty did to Parkville

An Arkansaw difficulty

Why the lynching bee failed

Orneriness of kings

King turns parson

All full of tears and flapdoodle

I steal the king's plunder

Dead Peter has his gold

Overreaching don't pay

I light out in a storm

Gold saves the thieves

You can't pray a lie

I have a new name

Pitiful ending of royalty

We cheer up Jim

Dark deep-laid plans

Trying to help Jim

Jim gets his witch pie

"Here a captive heart busted"

Tom writes nonamous letters

Mixed-up and splendid rescue

"Must 'a 'been sperits"

Why they didn't hang Jim

Chapter the last, nothing more to write

Afterword.

Discover Moses and the bulrushers

Our gang's dark oath

We ambuscade the A-rabs

Hair-ball oracle

Pap starts in on a new life

Pap struggles with the death angel

I fool pap and get away

I spare Mis Watson's Jim

House of death floats by

What comes of handlin' snake-skin

They're after us!

"Better let blame well alone"

Honest loot from the "Walter Scott"

Was Solomon wise?

Fooling poor old Jim

Rattlesnake-skin does the work

Grangerfords take me in

Why Harney rode away for his hat

Duke and the Dauphin come aboard

What royalty did to Parkville

An Arkansaw difficulty

Why the lynching bee failed

Orneriness of kings

King turns parson

All full of tears and flapdoodle

I steal the king's plunder

Dead Peter has his gold

Overreaching don't pay

I light out in a storm

Gold saves the thieves

You can't pray a lie

I have a new name

Pitiful ending of royalty

We cheer up Jim

Dark deep-laid plans

Trying to help Jim

Jim gets his witch pie

"Here a captive heart busted"

Tom writes nonamous letters

Mixed-up and splendid rescue

"Must 'a 'been sperits"

Why they didn't hang Jim

Chapter the last, nothing more to write

Afterword.

Twain spent seven years writing "Huckleberry Finn"

the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of the book, Huck definitively abandons the hypocrisy and cant on which he has been raised when he makes the shocking decision to go to hell rather than betray his friend Jim and send him back to slavery. The book has been banned from time to time, beginning with its publication in 1885, when it was deemed too subversive for children, until the late 20th century when, despite its compassionate attitude toward blacks and is violent denunciation of slavery, it has been branded racist because of Twain's use of dialect and "offensive" language. In addition to its message of tolerance and understanding, "Huckleberry Finn" continues to be read, talked about, and loved by readers of all ages because it's a cracking good coming-of-age story full of vivid characters and hilarious events

and because Twain's relentlessly clear-eyed angle of vision sees beneath the foibles and absurdities of humanity to the common ground that we all share.