Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Stacy King

Although Huckleberry soon realizes they are lying, he continues to call the two men the duke and the king.

They are joined by two con men, who claim to be the rightful heir to an English dukedom and the rightful king of France. Due to thick fog, they miss the town from which Jim could easily escape to freedom in the North and continue to aimlessly sail south. The boy and the runaway slave leave the island on a raft and sail down the Mississippi, traveling by night and hiding by day. Petersburg one evening, Huckleberry Finn finds out Jim is suspected of being his murderer and that men are looking for him. He discovers that Miss Watson's slave Jim has run away and is also hiding out on the island. In order to escape from his abusive father, as well as from the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, Huckleberry Finn fakes his own murder and hides out on an island in the Mississippi River. He takes Huckleberry Finn away from the Widow Douglas' house to live in a cabin in the woods. Petersburg to claim the money for himself. Huckleberry Finn's long absent and alcoholic father finds out about his son's sudden wealth. The boy dislikes the attempts of the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson to 'civilize' him. Huckleberry Finn goes to live in the Widow Douglas' house, which is also home to her elderly sister Miss Watson who has a slave named Jim. A wealthy woman known as the Widow Douglas, whose life Huckleberry Finn saves in the previous book, decides to look after and educate the outcast boy. The homeless boy Huckleberry Finn, the novel's title character and protagonist, and his adventurous friend Tom Sawyer have recently become rich after finding twelve thousand dollars in gold coins in an abandoned house. Petersburg in Missouri at the point at which The Adventures of Tom Sawyer finishes. The story begins in the fictional village of St. The action takes place some forty years before the novel was published in the pre-Civil War American South. It is a sequel to Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Front cover of the 1884 first edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Īdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a children's novel of forty-three chapters by the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote professionally under the pseudonym of Mark Twain.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Stacy King