And when Jim is captured and threatened with being sent back into slavery, Huck enlists his old buddy Tom Sawyer in a frenzied, desperate, and terribly funny rescue. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. The adventures ratchet up when they are joined on the raft by a self-proclaimed "duke" and a "king" - shysters both, who spend their time in figuring how to fleece the public in the little river towns. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By: Mark Twain Narrated by: Jackie Cooper, Orson Welles Length: 45 mins 1.7 (3 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases.
Huck and Jim have run-ins with desperados and family feuds and even manage to get run down by a steamboat.
Modern listeners will be intrigued by the unencumbered life of the pair they make do with coffee, fish from the river, and little else (but of course, when they do need something extra, they don't mind helping themselves to it without recourse to money!) The facts of how black people were treated in this period give Huck and Jim their license for life on the run. Much has been written about the statement Twain is making about slavery in this book, but it's really secondary to the story. At each stop, Huck engages his talent for mixing fact with bald-faced lies to endlessly get himself out of situations. Huck and Jim experience life as a series of tableaus as the river sweeps them through small towns on their way South. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own "murder" and turns back into the backwoods, downriver yokel he started as, and in the process springing a slave, Jim, from bondage. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. , listen for free online at the digital library site Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2) - description and summary of the book.
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