It was more than a century ago that Mark Twain left the notoriously violent Finn, Huckleberry Finn's father, dead, surrounded by such oddities as a wooden leg and women's undergarments. But just exactly how did Finn end up in that room? Clinch takes us on a journey through the mysterious life of an unusual man. Along the way, he introduces us to characters like the Judge--Finn's own frightening father--as well as Finn's sickly brother Will, the hermit...

The classic story of a mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave

In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out...

The adventures of a boy growing up in half-settled Missouri in the 1840's, who with a runaway slave floated down the Mississippi on a raft.

Retells in graphic novel format Twain's story about the adventures of a nineteenth-century boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft

Bored after their previous adventure, Tom Sawyer concocts a scheme to bamboozle the villagers of St. Petersburg into believing that Bigfoot-type monsters are migrating up the Mississippi River. He and his friends, Huck, Becky, Jim, and Zane Rasmussen, a teenage time-traveler from the 21st century, fake footprints and blood evidence to claim that they have killed one of the monsters on an island and saved the village. They are heroes once again. But...