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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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The cover of the 1884 edition of <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<i>.A sketch of Huck and Jim on their raft.A 1876 drawing of Tom Sawyer.Mark Twain in 1871.Mark Twain in 1907.Chapter 1: Part of the process of Widow Douglas ÒsivilizinÓ Huck involves teaching the boy about religion. Chapter 2: Jim hears Huck and Tom scuffling around and comes outside to investigate.Chapter 3: Huck gets in trouble for his clothes being dirty.Chapter 4: Huck goes to Jim to have his fortune read a the magic hairball.Chapter 5: Pap does manage to steal the last dollar Huck has, which he uses to get drunk in town.Chapter 6: Huck gets used to life in Pap\'s shack by the river. Chapter 7: Once he is out of dangerÕs way, Huck chills out in his canoe, smokes a pipe, and looks at the stars.Chapter 8: Jim immediately assumes that Huck is a ghost and begs that he not hurt him.Chapter 9: Huck and Jim head towards the middle of an island and find a cavern. After hiding their canoe and supplies, they take shelter there during a storm and eat dinner.Chapter 10: Jim decides that Huck should dress up like a girl and go to town to try and find some news.Chapter 11: Huck pretends to be a girl named Sarah Williams. He tells a completely fabricated story about his mother being sick. Chapter 12: Huck and Jim overhear three robbers, two of them preparing to kill the third man.Chapter 14: Jim says that, if Solomon indeed had a thousand wives, he wasnÕt actually that smart after all, because heÕd have to listen to the women gabbing all the time. Chapter 15: The next day the fog has lifted and Huck finds Jim, who has also been sleeping.Chapter 16: The men on the raft are looking for runaway slaves themselves and want to inspect the raft that Huck has left behind.Chapter 17: The Grangerford\'s house.Chapter 18: When Huck and Buck are outside walking one day, Buck tells Huck to jump into the bushes quickly as a man (Harney Shepherdson) on horse approaches.Chapter 19: The king and duke decide that working together would likely be more lucrative than scamming each other. ItÕs a match made in con-artist heaven.Chapter 20: The king says he doesnÕt know anything about Òplay-actinÕ,Ó so the duke explains to him all about Romeo and Juliet. They decide that the king will play Juliet and the duke Romeo. Here, the king acts as Juliet.Chapter 21: The duke completely jumbles HamletÕs soliloquy (ÒTo be or not to be; that is the bare bodkinÓ).Chapter 22: The ringmaster tries and fails to stop the drunk as he climbs on one of the circus horses, which tears about the stage.Chapter 23: Unfortunately, the duke and the king have absconded with the money from all three nightsÕ worth of shows Ð $465. Chapter 24: Watching the duke and king blubber on and lament their dear, beloved dead ÒbrotherÓ (Peter Wilks) Huck comments that, Òit was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.Ó Chapter 25: Peter Wilks\'s nieces fall for the plot hook, line, and sinker. They embrace the duke and king as their long-absent uncles.Chapter 25: The duke and king go down into the cellar where the six thousand in gold is hidden. TheyÕre all Scrooge-McDuck-excited and get to counting it right away.Chapter 26: Huck has to swear heÕs telling the truth over a book. He does it only because itÕs a dictionary and not the Bible.Chapter 26: When the conmen leave, Huck darts out of his hiding place and takes the gold. Chapter 27: The next day Ð the day of the planned property auction Ð the king and the duke wake Huck up and interrogate him. It seems theyÕre missing their gold, and theyÕre trying to figure out if heÕs the one that stole it.Chapter 28: Huck doesnÕt want to distress Mary Jane by telling her that he stowed the stolen gold in the coffin with PeterÕs body, so he writes this down, and tells her not to look at the paper until sheÕs already on the road to Mr. LothropÕs. Chapter 29: The duke\'s writing sample.Chapter 30: The duke starts strangling the king. To avoid asphyxiation, the king ÒconfessesÓ to stealing and hiding the cash.Chapter 31: Huck sets out to the farm of Silas Phelps, the man to whom the king sold Jim.Chapter 32: Aunt Sally believes Huck to be her nephew, none other than Tom Sawyer.Chapter 33: The duke and king have been tarred and feathered. Huck remarks that Òhuman beings can be awful cruel to one another.ÓChapter 34: Tom and Huck discern that Jim is being held in a hut near to the farmhouse. They debate over which plan would be best to steal him and escape.Chapter 35: Huck steals some supplies (shirt, sheet, knives) from the Phelpses. He tries to call it Òborrowing.ÓChapter 36: When Nat (the superstitious slave) starts getting suspicious, the Huck and Tom exploit his superstitions and blame all the mysterious happenings on witches. But, theyÕll bake a witchÕs pie to placate the spirits. Chapter 37: Huck and Tom continuously steal and replace a spoon while Aunt Sally tries to count how many there are. Chapter 38: In order to make the last few days of JimÕs stay as pleasant as possible, Tom and Huck decide they need some rats, snakes, spiders to spend the night with Jim.Chapter 39: Huck and Tom saw the leg (unnecessarily) off Jim\'s bed, and nearly get sick from eating all the sawdust in order to hide the evidence.Chapter 40: Fifteen farmers with guns come to the Phelps\'s house to prevent thieves from stealing Jim.Chapter 41: Huck explains sheepishly that they went out the window, and Aunt Sally starts worrying all over again about where Sid could be.Chapter 42: Everyone wants to hang Jim as an example of a runaway slave, but the doctor stops them and tells how Jim helped to save Tom Sawyer\'s life.Chapter 43: Huck plans to head out west, because heÕs already tried heading south and that didnÕt really accomplish anything. Plus, the country is growing out there, so there should be plenty of Òadventures.Ó

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Characters

Meet the Cast

Huckleberry Finn

We don’t envy Huck Finn. To begin, the boy’s got about ten systems of conflicting rul...

Jim

Jim’s relationship with Huck is the first place to start. Although it takes Huck some time...

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer is Huck’s good friend, introduced in a previous book by Mark Twain, The Adven...

The Duke and The King

The king is the older of the two con artists that Jim and Huck meet in Chapter 19, and he’s...

Pap

Huck’s father, or "Pap" as he calls him, is an easy character to hate. He is physically abu...

Widow Douglass

While her sister, Miss Watson, just seems like a broken record of constant nagging, the widow is...

The Grangerfords

The Grangerford clan is Twain's example of a traditional aristocratic family living in the pre-Ci...

Buck Grangerford

Upon meeting, Buck and Huck immediately become pals. As the youngest member of the Grangerford cl...

Aunt Polly

Tom’s Aunt Polly doesn’t make her grand entrance until the very end of the novel, but...

Silas and Sally Phelps

The king happens to sell Jim to Tom’s aunt and uncle. Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas are good n...

The Shepherdsons

We don’t know much about the Shepherdson family other than the fact that they are the rival...

Colonel Sherburn and Boggs

Although Sherburn and Boggs are only in the story for a short time, they make quite an impression...

Judge Thatcher

Judge Thatcher and Widow Douglass are the dynamic duo fighting for Huck’s safety and well-b...

Miss Watson

Good grief! Miss Watson just will not give Huck a break. As one of Huck’s guardians before...

The Wilks Family

The Wilks family is the target of one of the duke and the king’s most conniving scams. The...
     
 
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