Product Description: 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'...read more

Presents a new view of Twain's character as a man who wanted to assimilate to the culture of the eastern states, but never completely succeeded

The humorist describes his adventures traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and the American West