# Adventures of Huckleberry Finn **by Mark Twain** · 1884 · Adventure · Free public-domain eBook Huck Finn and the runaway slave Jim raft down the Mississippi River in this masterpiece of American literature and satire. **Read it free:** https://mybookpdf.com/read/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn **Canonical URL:** https://mybookpdf.com/read/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn **License:** content is public domain; this page is [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit MyBookPDF.com when citing. ## Download free (no registration) - [EPUB](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76.epub3.images) - [PDF](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76/pg76.pdf) - [Kindle](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76.kf8.images) - [Plain text](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76/pg76.txt) ## Opening of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 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. 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. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back. The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn’t do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn’t really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by-and-by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people. [Continue reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn free →](https://mybookpdf.com/reader?id=adventures-of-huckleberry-finn) ## Audiobook & print As an Amazon Associate, MyBookPDF earns from qualifying purchases. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is free to read and download above; these are optional: - [Listen on Audible (free trial)](https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?purchaseType=MTRIAL&linkCode=ll2&tag=mybookpdfcom-20&linkId=62eb63fb0ae4b282f7c003ee7f5ed54f&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl) - [Buy a physical copy on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143107321?tag=mybookpdfcom-20) - [Listen free on LibriVox](https://librivox.org/search?title=Adventures%20of%20Huckleberry%20Finn&author=Mark%20Twain&status=complete&search_form=advanced) More: [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn summary](https://mybookpdf.com/summary?id=adventures-of-huckleberry-finn) · [books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://mybookpdf.com/similar?id=adventures-of-huckleberry-finn) · [more by Mark Twain](https://mybookpdf.com/author/mark-twain) --- _Generated from MyBookPDF.com. HTML view: https://mybookpdf.com/read/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn_