Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by MarkTwain, first published in the United Kingdom in December1884 and in the United States in February 1885.The book is noted for its colorful descriptionof people andplaces along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellumsociety that had ceased to exist about twe