Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Language: English (US)

Huck fakes his own death to escape his father and heads down the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, a man escaping slavery. The journey turns into a sustained test of what Huck has been taught to believe against what he sees, narrated throughout in his own voice. Published in 1884, it is written in regional dialects of its period, including racial language that is offensive to modern readers; the text is presented unaltered. Public domain in the EU (author died 1910). Source: Project Gutenberg.

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NOTICE.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR PER G. G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.

EXPLANATORY

In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.

I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.

THE AUTHOR.

HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago

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