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Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft dont. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft Mark Twains tale of a boys picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the sivilizing Widow Douglas wi Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft dont. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft Mark Twains tale of a boys picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has 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 Daupin. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents--of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Hucks struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring frienship with Jim. This edition uses the text from the first edition of 1884 and includes a new chronology and suggestions for further reading. All modern American literature comes from... Huckleberry Finn ..Its the best book weve had--Ernest Hemingway

Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft dont. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft Mark Twains tale of a boys picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the sivilizing Widow Douglas wi Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft dont. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft Mark Twains tale of a boys picaresque journey down...  Read More