About the author
Mark Twain was the pen name of American writer and humorist Samuel Clemens. His fiction drew on the Mississippi, vernacular speech, travel, journalism, and a deep suspicion of respectable cruelty, received wisdom, and collective self-deception.
The journey carries them past feuding families, drowned towns, con men calling themselves king and duke, and every variety of riverside humanity. Twain writes it all in Huck's own voice — uneducated, shrewd, and funny without knowing it — and the dialect does work no narrator could.
Where to start
Start with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A boy and an escaped slave ride the Mississippi on a raft, outrunning everything polite society expects of them.
