«Priklyucheniya Gekl’berri Finna» – vtoroy roman Marka Tvena o mal’chishkakh, prodolzhenie romana «Priklyucheniya Toma Soyera». Kniga znamenita yarkimi opisaniyami zhizni naroda i mestechek vdol’ po techeniyu reki Missisipi. Povestvovanie vedetsya ot litsa Geka Finna, druga Toma Soyera. Deystvie proiskhodit do sobytiy Grazhdanskoy voyny v SShA mezhdu shtatami Severa i Yuga, to est’ do 1861 goda, i ono ispolneno edkoy satiry na ukorenivshiesya predrassudki, v chastnosti na rasizm. Gek Finn – mal’chik primerno dvenadtsati let, s rozhdeniya vospitan ottsom, gorodskim p’yanitsey, i s trudom sposoben prisposobit’sya k tsivilizovannomu obshchestvu. Neozhidanno razbogatevshego Geka prinimaet v svoem dome vdova Duglas, kotoraya pytaetsya «vospitat’» ego i obuchit’ religii, a otets prodolzhaet p’yanstvovat’ i zastavlyaet otdat’ vse den’gi. Gek bezhit ot davleniya obshchestva, ot vdovy i ottsa, i pri etom ves’ma udachno instseniruet svoe ubiystvo. On pryachetsya na ostrove, a zatem otpravlyaetsya na plotu vniz po Missisipi, vmeste s beglym negrom. Lyubopytnye fakty Kniga stala ves’ma populyarnoy sredi podrostkov. Pri etom, Mark Tven utverzhdal, chto proizvedenie prednaznacheno vzroslym chitatelyam. Roman pol’zuetsya neizmennym uspekhom u chitateley, a takzhe yavlyaetsya predmetom issledovaniy literaturnykh kritikov s momenta svoey pervoy publikatsii. Vskore posle vykhoda ego kritikovali za grubyy yazyk, a v XXI veke proizvedenie stalo eshche bolee spornym iz-za yarkikh rasistskikh stereotipov, nesmotrya na to, chto glavnyy geroy postepenno priobretaet antirasistskie ubezhdeniya, i iz-za chastogo ispol’zovaniya slova «negr» (angl. nigger), schitayushchegosya v nastoyashchee vremya v SShA oskorbitel’nym. Pered vami pervyy perevod proizvedeniya na russkiy yazyk – luchshiy sushchestvuyushchiy perevod, napisannyy russkim pisatelem i perevodchikom Mikhailom Engel’gardtom, zhivym, obraznym yazykom.Mark Twain’s classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.

Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book’s humor is found mostly in Huck’s unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: “After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people.” Underlying Twain’s good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and injustice that makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message.