книга "The adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — Марк ТвенThe adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Гекльберри Финн, сбежавший от жестокого отца, вместе с беглым негром Джимом сплавляются на плоту по реке Миссисипи. Спустя некоторое время к ним присоединяются проходимцы Герцог и Король, которые в итоге продают Джима в рабство. Гек и присоединившийся к нему Том Сойер организуют освобождение узника. Но, если Гек всерьёз освобождает Джима из заточения, то Том делает это просто для интереса - он знает, что хозяйка Джима уже дала ему свободу.
Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious. Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps Instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly in Huck's unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him, but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time, so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people. | 
