Often criticised for its harsh and racist language Huckleberry Finn is an account of the inherent attitudes and culture of the deep south in an 1800s United States
A direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer it recounts the adventures of Huck as he escapes from his alcoholic father is reunited with the slave Jim and witnesses a murder
After Jim is captured he sets out with Tom Sawyer to rescue him with an overly elaborate plan using an array of ideas from adventure books Tom has read