![]() ![]() Huck and Jim have run-ins with desperados and family feuds and even manage to get run down by a steamboat. Modern listeners will be intrigued by the unencumbered life of the pair they make do with coffee, fish from the river, and little else (but of course, when they do need something extra, they don't mind helping themselves to it without recourse to money!) The facts of how black people were treated in this period give Huck and Jim their license for life on the run. Much has been written about the statement Twain is making about slavery in this book, but it's really secondary to the story. At each stop, Huck engages his talent for mixing fact with bald-faced lies to endlessly get himself out of situations. Huck and Jim experience life as a series of tableaus as the river sweeps them through small towns on their way South. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own "murder" and turns back into the backwoods, downriver yokel he started as, and in the process springing a slave, Jim, from bondage. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Whether you connect with it on the level of humor, coming of age, or classic Americana, this tale is sure to please.LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 02). Many consider The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn to be “The Great American Novel.” Brimming with richness and depth, debates still take place over the symbolic significance of Huck's and Jim's voyage. ![]() He manages to fake his own death to escape from his father, where he meets Jim, a slave who he valiantly helps to escape slavery, which leads to their famed rafting trip down the Mississippi River. Huck emulates his father in certain ways, but also has a heart of gold and tends to do the right thing, despite societal norms.įinn wears the clothes of full-grown men, and as Twain describes him, "he was fluttering with rags." He steals watermelons and chickens and "borrows" boats and cigars. Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is the son of the town's drunkard, "Pap" Finn. Download The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, the classic (and controversial) tale of boyhood, adventure, and life in the Mississippi Valley from a bygone era, penned by one of the all time masters: Mark Twain. ![]()
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