“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was written by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens 1835 - 1910) and was written as a sequel to “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. This edition was published in 1918 by Grosset and Dunlap. The story is narrated by Huck Finn, a young boy seeking freedom from his abusive father. Huck escapes down the Mississippi River mainly on a raft, with Tom and “Negro Jim”, a runaway slave.