Young Huckleberry Finn, ragged and free-spirited, chafes against every effort to civilize him, and when his brutal, drunken father turns up to claim him, Huck stages his own death and slips away to a wooded island on the Mississippi. There he finds Jim, a man fleeing slavery in a desperate bid for freedom, and the two cast off together on a raft, drifting down the great river toward whatever lies south. What follows will test Huck's conscience against everything his world has taught him. Twain's landmark 1885 novel, told in Huck's own unforgettable voice, sets two runaways adrift on America's mightiest river.