Mark Twain's 1884 American fiction follows young Huck Finn as he escapes his abusive father and rafts down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave. Their journey through the antebellum South explores friendship, freedom, and moral awakening against the backdrop of a deeply divided society.
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more…Continue reading →
Born Samuel Clemens in 1835, this Missouri riverboat pilot transformed American literature with his vivid portrayals of life along the Mississippi River. His masterpieces The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn captured authentic American voices and tackled serious social issues through humor and satire until his death in 1910. All works by Mark Twain →
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