You feel mighty free and easy comfortable on a raft.' The sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer remains one of the greatest creations in American fiction. Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque tale, told in Huck's own voice, of his adventures on a raft on the Mississippi River. It begins with Huck's escape from his drunken, brutal father to the river, where he meets up with Jim, a runaway slave. The story of their journey downstream, with occasional forays into the society along the banks, is an