A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.

To get away from his violent, drunken father, Huckleberry Finn fakes his own deatha dn lives wild in the woods. He soon meets Jim, a runaway slave, and the two outcasts set off on a dangerous journey down the mighty Mississippi River in search of freedom. Huck's chronicle of their adventures, and the amazing characters he meets along the way is one of the great American classics.