The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In this immortal American odyssey of the South in the 1840's, Huckleberry Finn, fleeing his drunken father and the civilizing efforts of the Widow Douglas, meets up with "Nigger Jim," a runaway slave, and the two escape together down the Mississippi on a raft. The splendor of the great river alternates with terror and misadventure, as the refugees drift south, stopping off in one-horse river towns, where society is gullible and mean and sometimes brutal. And there is a time when Huck's loyalty to Nigger Jim is put to the test. But Jim's ennobling friendship and Huck's own untutored morality help him to pull through, even at the risk of hellfire.