Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of

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1. A novel by Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn, a boy running away from his father, and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, take to the Mississippi River on a raft. Eventually Jim is captured, and Huck helps him escape. The lessons Huck learns about life are a prevailing theme of the book.

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Comprehensive statistics on downloads of free e-book editions of the classics are difficult to come by, but just one popular and long-lived resource, Project Gutenberg, has posted that more than 4.5 million e-book files have been downloaded by users in the last 30 days alone, with its list of most popular titles topped by Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and the Kama Sutra.

From Time