The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain's exhilarating Mississippi adventure story and the companion to Tom Sawyer.In hiding from his drunken and tyrannical father,Huck Finn escapes to Jackson's Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together the boys set off on a raft down the Mississippi, in a daring bid for freedom from so-called 'sivilization'.Action-packed and crammed with vibrant characters and incidents, Huckleberry Finn catches more vividly than any other novel the comedy, terror, resilience and spontaneity of boyhood. More than a mere sequel to Tom Sawyer, it is Mark Twain's masterpiece and a great American novel.
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 - aU 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 than a body could teU what to do with. The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would siv ilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so When I couldn"t standit no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.