Mark Twain&#39;s story of a boy&#39;s journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken, abusive &#39;Pap&#39; and the &#39;sivilizing&#39; Widow Douglas with runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous &#39;Duke&#39; and &#39;Dauphin&#39;. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck&#39;s struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.<br />&nbsp;