Breezy,outrageous,thrilling from first page to last,Huckleberry Finn is the most widely read and universally loved work in Americanan fiction.It is also the most imitated."All modern American literature," according to Ernest Hemingway,"comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

"Now,we"ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer"s Gang.Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath,and write his name in blood."Everybody was willing.So Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had wrote the oath on,and read it.It swore every boy to stick to the band,and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band,whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it,and he mustn"t eat and he mustn"t sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts,which was the sign of the band.Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head.

Then they all stuck a pin in their fingers to get the blood to sign with,and I made my mark on the paper.

THE LIFE OF MARK TWAIN

PREFACE

NOTICE

EXPLANATORY

DISCOVER MOSES AND THE BULRUSHERS

OUR GANG"S DARK OATH

WE AMBUSCADE THE A-RABS

THE HAIR-BALL ORACLE

PAP STARTS IN ON A NEW LIFE

PAP STRUGGLES WITH THE DEATH ANGEL

I FOOL PAP AND GET AWAY

I SPARE MISS WATSON"S JIM

THE HOUSE OE DEATH FLOATS BY

WHAT COMES OF HANDLIN" SNAKE-SKIN

THEY"RE AFTER Us!

"BETTER LET BLAME WELL ALONE"

HONEST LOOT FROM THE "WALTER SCOTT"

WAS SOLOMON WISE?

FOOLING POOR OLD JIM

THE RATTLESNAKE-SKIN Does ITS WORK

TIlE GRANGERFORDS TAKE ME IN

WHY HARNEY RODE AWAY FOR HIS HAT

THE DUKE AND THE DAUPHIN COME ABOARD

WHAT ROYALTY DID TO PARKVILLE

AN ARKANSAW DIFFICULTY

WHY THE LYNCHING BEE FAILED

TIlE ORNERINESS OF KINGS

THE KING TURNS PARSON

ALL FULL OF TEARS AND FLAPDOODLE

I STEAL THE KING"S PLUNDER

DEAD PETER HAS HIS GOLD

OVERREACHING DON"T PAY

I LIGHT OUT IN THE STORM

THE GOLD SAVES THE THIEVES

You CAN"T Pray a LIE

I HAVE A NEw NAME

THE PITIFUL ENDING OF ROYALTY

WE CHEER UP Jim

DARK. DEEP-LAID PLANS

TRYING TO HELP JIM

JIM GETS HIS WITCH PIE

"HERE A CAPTIVE HEART BUSTED"

TOM WRITES NONNAMOUS LETTERS

A MIXED-UP AND SPLENDID RESCUE

"Must "A" BEEN SPERITS"

WHY THEY DIDN"T HANG JIM CHAPTER THE LAST. NOTHING MORE TO WRITE AFTERRWORD