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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows a runaway boy and an escaping enslaved man, Jim, as they drift down the Mississippi River on a raft in the decades before the Civil War. Told in Huck's own vernacular voice, the novel mixes comic adventure, river lore and sharp satire of feuds, frauds and respectable hypocrisy. Its emotional center is Huck's struggle over whether loyalty to a friend can outweigh what his society calls right. Since its 1884-85 publication it has been celebrated, taught, challenged and re-argued, which makes it one of the classic novels to read for anyone curious about American literature and the nation's unresolved history with slavery and race.