Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

Huckleberry Finn - rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure - is the archetypical American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with the runaway slave Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing that "there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't." As Huck learns about love, responsibility, and morality, the trip becomes a metaphoric voyage through his own soul, culminating in the glorious moment when he decides to "go to hell" rather than return Jim to slavery.