Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Source

Notice
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.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.

Explanatory
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.

THE AUTHOR

Huckleberry Finn
Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago


 * Chapter I — Discover Moses and the Bulrushers
 * Chapter II — Our Gang's Dark Oath
 * Chapter III — We Ambuscade the A-rabs
 * Chapter IV — The Hair-ball Oracle
 * Chapter V — Pap Starts in on a New Life
 * Chapter VI — Pap Struggles with the Death Angel
 * Chapter VII — I Fool Pap and Get Away
 * Chapter VIII — I Spare Miss Watson's Jim
 * Chapter IX — The House of Death Floats By
 * Chapter X — What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin
 * Chapter XI — They're After Us!
 * Chapter XII — "Better Let Blame Well Alone"
 * Chapter XIII — Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"
 * Chapter XIV — Was Solomon Wise?
 * Chapter XV — Fooling Poor Old Jim
 * Chapter XVI — The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work
 * Chapter XVII — The Grangerfords Take Me In
 * Chapter XVIII — Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat
 * Chapter XIX — The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard
 * Chapter XX — What Royalty Did to Parkville
 * Chapter XXI — An Arkansaw Difficulty
 * Chapter XXII — Why the Lynching Bee Failed
 * Chapter XXIII — The Orneriness of Kings
 * Chapter XXIV — The King Turns Parson
 * Chapter XXV — All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle
 * Chapter XXVI — I Steal the King's Plunder
 * Chapter XXVII — Dead Peter Has His Gold
 * Chapter XXVIII — Overreaching Don't Pay
 * Chapter XXIX — I Light Out in the Storm
 * Chapter XXX — The Gold Saves the Thieves
 * Chapter XXXI — You Can't Pray a Lie
 * Chapter XXXII — I Have a New Name
 * Chapter XXXIII — The Pitiful Ending of Royalty
 * Chapter XXXIV — We Cheer Up Jim
 * Chapter XXXV — Dark, Deep-Laid Plans
 * Chapter XXXVI — Trying to Help Jim
 * Chapter XXXVII — Jim Gets His Witch Pie
 * Chapter XXXVIII — "Here a Captive Heart Buried"
 * Chapter XXXIX — Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters
 * Chapter XL — A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue
 * Chapter XLI — "Must 'a' Been Sperits"
 * Chapter XLII — Why They Didn't Hang Jim
 * Chapter XLIII — Chapter the Last, Nothing More to Write