A key work of American literature. On a rickety raft, the adventurous Huck Finn and his friend, the slave Jim, travel down the Mississippi, which becomes the epitome of freedom for them. During their odyssey, they encounter strange figures, crooks, and scoundrels. When Jim is betrayed and ends up in prison, Huck and his friend Tom Sawyer are lured into a new adventure: they must free Jim! "All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since that equals it." Ernest Hemingway. On the wide river of the Mississippi, a presumed dead man and a fugitive drift south: Huck Finn, the orphaned friend of Tom Sawyer, and the slave Jim. Their journey becomes an adventurous odyssey. They suffer shipwreck and fall into the hands of wandering crooks.