小说描写了哈克贝利为了追求自由生活所经历的惊险离奇的故事。全篇现实主义描绘和浪漫主义抒情交相辉映,尖锐深刻的揭露、幽默辛辣的讽刺以及浪漫传奇的描写浑然一体,形成了马克·吐温独特的艺术风格。本书不仅是最优秀的世界儿童惊险小说之一,而且是世界上现有的作品中最受欢迎和称赞的一部小说;它曾被美国电影界七次搬上银幕,达到了马克·吐温现实主义艺术技巧的高峰。本书为英文版。
懵懂顽皮的农村少年哈克从收养自己的寡妇家中逃了出来,并遇到了同样从主人家逃出来的黑奴吉姆。两人为了躲避追捕,乘坐一条木筏沿着密西西比河顺流而下,途中险象环生,惊险不断。最终,哈克回到了朋友们中间而吉姆得到了自由。
CHAPTER 1
Discover Moses and the Bulrushers
CHAPTER 2
Our Gang's Dark Oath
CHAPTER 3
We Ambuscade the A-rabs
CHAPTER 4
The Hair-ball Oracle
CHAPTER 5
Pap Starts in on a New Life
CHAPTER 6
Pap Struggles with the Death Angel
CHAPTER 7
I Fool Pap and Get Away
CHAPTER 8
I Spare Miss Watson's Jim
CHAPTER 9
The House of Death Floats By
CHAPTER 10
What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin
CHAPTER 11
They're After Us!
CHAPTER 12
"Better Let Blame Well Alone"
CHAPTER 13
Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"
CHAPTER 14
Was Solomon Wise?
CHAPTER 15
Fooling Poor Old Jim
CHAPTER 16
The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work
CHAPTER 17
The Grangerfords Take Me In
CHAPTER 18
Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat
CHAPTER 19
The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard
CHAPTER 20
What Royalty Did to Parkville
CHAPTER 21
An Arkansaw Difficulty
CHAPTER 22
Why the Lynching Bee Failed
CHAPTER 23
The Orneriness of Kings
CHAPTER 24
The King Turns Parson
CHAPTER 25
All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle
CHAPTER 26
I Steal the King's Plunder
CHAPTER 27
Dead Peter Has His Gold
CHAPTER 28
Overreaching Don't Pay
CHAPTER 29
I Light Out in the Storm
CHAPTER 30
The Gold Saves the Thieves
CHAPTER 31
You Can't Pray a Lie
CHAPTER 32
I Have a New Name
CHAPTER 33
The Pitiful Ending of Royalty
CHAPTER 34
We Cheer Up Jim
CHAPTER 35
Dark, Deep-laid Plans
CHAPTER 36
Trying to Help Jim
CHAPTER 37
Jim Gets His Witch Pie
CHAPTER 38
"Here a Captive Heart Busted"
CHAPTER 39
Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters
CHAPTER 40
A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue
CHAPTER 41
"Must 'A' Been Sperits"
CHAPTER 42
Why They Didn't Hang Jim
CHAPTER 43
Nothing More to Write