Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was published in 1884.
Huckleberry is a bright white boy who flees from home to the Mississippi River in pursuit of a life of freedom. On his way, he meets a black slave Jim and they start their adventures together. Jim is hard-working and honest. He runs from his master’s house to escape the fate of being sold again. The two runaways go through various breathtaking adventures and build deep friendship. Smart Huck racks his brains to try to rescue Jim with his friends.
Huck addresses readers directly in the novel. His friendly, naive style of speaking proves engaging, creating a sense of trustworthiness. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway famously declared in 1935. “It’s the best book we’ve had.”
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