Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A boy and a runaway man ride a raft down the 1840s Mississippi, starting from a sleepy Missouri river town and drifting far south past the confluence they mean to reach and can't.

Huck Finn

St. Petersburg, the town on the bluff

Ch. 1

Here Huck lives under the Widow Douglas's roof, being sivilized against his will, when his drunk father turns up to claim him and the money. The town is the whole tame world he is about to run from. Everything downriver is measured against this starting bluff.

Ch. 1

inspired by The novel's "St. Petersburg" is Twain's own boyhood Hannibal, Missouri, the river town he grew up in and drew on repeatedly. The Widow Douglas's house and the town are fictionalized, but the place is unmistakably Hannibal on its bluff above the Mississippi.

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