[Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim fall in with a pair of low-grade con artists. One fancies ...

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his ...

Other libraries followed suit, but over the years, the story about two runaways, Huck Finn and his friend Jim, would garner acclaim, achieving the status of a masterpiece, and required reading in ...