Mark Twain created one of Americas best-loved fictional characters in Huckleberry Finn. Recounting the exploits of the imaginative adolescent as he and the runaway slave, Jim, raft down the Mississippi River, Twain ultimately addresses far deeper themes - mans inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.
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