The Advertures of Huckleberry Finn Author:Mark Twain This is an old book in pretty good condition but the front cover has a small piece missing. See cover photo. — He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a hogshead. He?s Huck Finn, a homeless waif, a liar and their on occasion and a casual rebel agains respectability. But on the day that he encounters another fugitive fr... more »om trouble, a runaway slave named Jim, he also finds for the first time in his life love, acceptance and a sense of responsibility. And it is in the exciting and moving story of these two outcasts feeing down the Mississippi on a raft, that a wonderful metamorphosis occurs. the boy nobody wants becomes a human being with a sense of his own destiny and the courage to choose between violating the code of the conventional and betraying the person who needs him most. Rich in color, humor and the adventurous frontier experience f the Mississippi, this great novel vividly recreates the world, the people and the language that Mark Twain kew and loved from his own years on the riverboats.« less