Larger	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Heath Anthology of American Literature) Author: Paul Lauter, Mark Twain
	Book Information Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div Book Type: Paperback Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780395898918 - ISBN-10: 0395898919 Publication Date: 11/1997

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN This is Twain's masterwork written at the height of his power. Twain himself refers to it as "a book of mine where a sound heart & a deformed conscience come into collision & conscience suffers defeat."

The book contains belly-laughing humor intertwined with themes of profound moral significance. Huck, escaping from the confines of his existence on the shore, has found life to be "free and easy living on a raft" with Jim, a black man fleeing from slavery. When faced with the crucial decision to turn over Jim to his rightful owner, he studies the consequences, then says to himself, "All right, then, I'll go to hell."