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I cannot believe that I had never read this classic of American literature before.

Huck Finn has been living with the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, being “civilized” and schooled. Judge Thatcher doles out his allowance and he is “tolerable happy.” But when his father returns to town and kidnaps Huck, he decides he has to rely on his own wits. Huck manages to escape via canoe and sets up camp on an island in the Mississippi, where he soon discovers
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