A masterpiece by Mark Twain, the 'father of American literature'
A coming-of-age novel depicting an adventure that transcends violence and prejudice and breathes with nature.
A classic that criticizes racial issues and breaks conventions with childlike sarcasm and humor.

“There are times when you can’t recognize something even when you look at it with your own eyes.”

Huckleberry Finn, the son of a drunkard living in St. Petersburg, Missouri, is adopted by the widow Douglas in the same town.
He sometimes feels annoyed by the discipline of the widow Douglas and her sister, the spinster Watson, but he adapts well.
Around this time, rumors spread that Huck Finn had come into possession of money by accident, and his father shows up and begins to harass him again.
Huckleberry Finn, who was captured by his father and escaped to Jackson's Island in the middle of the Mississippi River, meets Jim, a black slave of Watson's.
The two travel south along the Mississippi River on a raft that washes ashore in a flood, experiencing various incidents.

Mark Twain's masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a kind of rite of passage that must be read on becoming an adult, and has the widest readership in the history of world literature.
Through a protagonist who rejects education and civilization, it challenges conventions, boldly satirizes racial discrimination, the most sensitive issue in American society, and humorously awakens the then-revolutionary idea that all people should be equal and free.
This translation is based on the original "The Only Complete Edition" published by Random House in the United States in 1996. With four episodes, new vocabulary, expressions, and colloquial sentences added or changed, it is the only complete translation among domestic translations that readers can trust and read.

If you haven't read the book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," you probably don't know much about me. But that's no big deal. The author of the book is Mark Twain, and he's mostly telling the truth. He might have exaggerated a little, but he's mostly telling the truth. That's okay. I've never met a man who hasn't lied at least once or twice.
--- p.15

But I felt compelled to leave for the Indian village ahead of the rest.
Because Aunt Sally was trying to adopt me and make me into a [cultured] person, and I couldn't stand it.
I've done that before, you know.

--- p.596