Everett isn’t exactly hitching a ride on Twain’s raft ... with the inane trip to Phelps’s farm that spoils the end of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Instead, “James” leans ...

[Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim ... the duke got home to the raft we all had a supper ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published ... named Jim are together on a raft sailing down the Mississippi ...