Huck fakes his death and rafts down the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, dodging feuds, con men, and his own conscience.
Books mentioned in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (7)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking.”
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: “One was Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why.”
Friendship's Offering: “Another was Friendship's Offering, full of beautiful stuff and poetry; but I didn't read the poetry.”
Gunn’s Domestic Medicine by John C Gunn: “another was Dr. Gunn's Family Medicine, which told you all about what to do if a body was sick or dead.”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “… and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.”
Richard III by William Shakespeare: “The first good town we come to we'll hire a hall and do the sword fight in Richard III.”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “Hamlet's soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare.”
Books that mention Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (8)
Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “the book derives its very quality from this fact, as did 'Huckleberry Finn.'”
Fraternity by John Galsworthy: “in a yellow binding Mark Twain's “Huckleberry Finn.””
To Let by John Galsworthy: “bringing home to him Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Twain essay; also cited in Hemingway essay”
Grant by Ron Chernow: “Charles L. Webster and Company's sole mission, at first, was to publish Huckleberry Finn and other Twain works.”
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: “When discussing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in high school, one of my teachers pointed out that in order for Mark Twain to become Mark Twain, he had to grow up along the river...”
The Help by Kathryn Stockett: “poems by Emily Dickinson (any), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell: “Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at forty-nine.”