The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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

• Chapter I — Discover Moses and the Bulrushers
• Chapter II — Our Gang's Dark Oath
• Chapter III — We Ambuscade the A-rabs
• Chapter IV — The Hair-ball Oracle
• Chapter V — Pap Starts in on a New Life
• Chapter VI — Pap Struggles with the Death Angel
• Chapter VII — I Fool Pap and Get Away
• Chapter VIII — I Spare Miss Watson's Jim
• Chapter IX — The House of Death Floats By
• Chapter X — What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin
• Chapter XI — They're After Us!
• Chapter XII — "Better Let Blame Well Alone"
• Chapter XIII — Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"
• Chapter XIV — Was Solomon Wise?
• Chapter XV — Fooling Poor Old Jim
• Chapter XVI — The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work
• Chapter XVII — The Grangerfords Take Me In
• Chapter XVIII — Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat
• Chapter XIX — The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard
• Chapter XX — What Royalty Did to Parkville
• Chapter XXI — An Arkansaw Difficulty
• Chapter XXII — Why the Lynching Bee Failed
• Chapter XXIII — The Orneriness of Kings
• Chapter XXIV — The King Turns Parson
• Chapter XXV — All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle
• Chapter XXVI — I Steal the King's Plunder
• Chapter XXVII — Dead Peter Has His Gold
• Chapter XXVIII — Overreaching Don't Pay
• Chapter XXIX — I Light Out in the Storm
• Chapter XXX — The Gold Saves the Thieves
• Chapter XXXI — You Can't Pray a Lie
• Chapter XXXII — I Have a New Name
• Chapter XXXIII — The Pitiful Ending of Royalty
• Chapter XXXIV — We Cheer Up Jim
• Chapter XXXV — Dark, Deep-Laid Plans
• Chapter XXXVI — Trying to Help Jim
• Chapter XXXVII — Jim Gets His Witch Pie
• Chapter XXXVIII — "Here a Captive Heart Buried"
• Chapter XXXIX — Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters
• Chapter XL — A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue
• Chapter XLI — "Must 'a' Been Sperits"
• Chapter XLII — Why They Didn't Hang Jim
• Chapter XLIII — Chapter the Last, Nothing More to Write