The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and the young vagabond Huckleberry Finn discovered twelve thousand dollars they are shared. The money is now placed at interest by the Thatcher judge. And Huck, whose father has been missing for more than a year, was adopted by the Widow Douglas. This, assisted by her sister Miss Watson, undertakes to "civilize" Huck. The boy, who lived in a barrel until then, enjoy some find themselves encased in beautiful new clothes, crushed under heavy conventions. The sound of six thousand dollars eventually reach the ears of his father, who suddenly appears, is confirmed in the custody of his son, forbids it to go to school, and initiate proceedings against the judge Thatcher to extort money (as Huck took care to sell his share to the judge for a dollar). In spring, the drunkard grabs his son by surprise and takes up the river in a cabin hidden in the woods, where the receiver. Huck says he prefers a life of hunting and fishing stifling constraints it faced at the Widow Douglas. However, the old Finn abusing the stick. In a fit of delirium tremens, he even tries to kill his son. Advantage of the absence of the drunkard, Huck manages to get out of the cabin. "To prevent the widow and the old" running after him, he simulates his own assassination, and down the river by canoe to Jackson Island. After four days, he discovers he is not alone on the island. A runaway slave is hidden: the old Jim, who belongs to Miss Watson. Huck promises not to denounce it. One day, disguised as a girl, Huck returns to the city for news. He learns that some suspect of killing Jim, because the slave disappeared the day of "murder." And men, who noticed smoke on Jackson Island, are exploring it the same evening. Huck hastily returned the island, and the two friends fled aboard a raft. Huck and Jim aboard their raft. Sleeping well hidden the day, sailing at night, they go down the Mississippi. They meet rafts, beautiful storms, barges, steamers, but also a home that floats and contains a corpse, or a ship sinking, on which two bandits are about to perform an unscrupulous accomplice ..