Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Yale Univ, $28 (456p) ISBN 978-0-300-26832-4 ...

A similar sequence occurs in Chapter 1 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but in reverse: Huck sees the stars, then hears that “leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful,” then hears an owl, “away ...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is an American classic. It tells the story of how the abused white boy Huck and the runaway black slave Jim teamed up to escape their circumstances.