Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Summary

Fleeing his violent father, Huck Finn fakes his own death and rafts down the Mississippi with Jim, an enslaved man escaping to freedom, meeting con artists, feuding families, and lynch mobs along the shore. Twain writes the whole novel in Huck's unschooled voice, letting the boy's conscience wrestle with everything his society taught him until he famously resolves to help Jim anyway. Ernest Hemingway claimed all modern American literature comes from this one book.