The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft, capturing 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 introduce him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'.