Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. Huckleberry Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.

The drifting journey of Huckleberry Finn and his friend, runaway slave Jim, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.

The book has been popular with young readers since its publication, and taken as a sequel to the comparatively innocuous The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.