Mark Twain wrote this work eight years after presenting the character in ‘ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ‘ . Huck , educated in the moral of his time, he knows he should denounce Jim , the black slave who , under the threat of being sold , is about to flee. And he knows that helping to escape a black is ” sin ” and that this path ” condemned “. But Huck understand the “reasons of the heart” and ignores the “moral” alleged in favor of friendship and good sense . Fortunately , history has given reason to Huckleberry Finn.A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain’s manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.