《허클베리핀의 모험》은 마크트웨인이 1885년 2월 출간한 소설로서 미국 문학의 걸작 중 하나로 평가되고 있다. 전쟁 후 미국 남부에서 흑인 노예 문제와 인종차별을 다룬 "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"의 후속작이며, 주인공인 허클베리 핀의 모험을 통해 사회적 문제와 인간 본성에 대한 풍자를 담고 있다. 당시에도 논란이 많았던 작품이지만 동시에 자유, 용기, 도전에 대한 메시지와 예술적인 가치로 현대에까지 많은 사랑을 받고 있다.
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CHAPTER I. Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits.
CHAPTER II. The Boys Escape Jim.—Torn Sawyer’s Gang.—Deep-laid Plans.
CHAPTER III. A Good Going-over.—Grace Triumphant.—“One of Tom Sawyers’s Lies”.
CHAPTER IV. Huck and the Judge.—Superstition.
CHAPTER V. Huck’s Father.—The Fond Parent.—Reform.
CHAPTER VI. He Went for Judge Thatcher.—Huck Decided to Leave.—Political Economy.—Thrashing Around.
CHAPTER VII. Laying for Him.—Locked in the Cabin.—Sinking the Body.—Resting.
CHAPTER VIII. Sleeping in the Woods.—Raising the Dead.—Exploring the Island.—Finding Jim.—Jim’s Escape.—Signs.—Balum.
CHAPTER IX. The Cave.—The Floating House.
CHAPTER X. The Find.—Old Hank Bunker.—In Disguise.
CHAPTER XI. Huck and the Woman.—The Search.—Prevarication.—Going to Goshen.
CHAPTER XII. Slow Navigation.—Borrowing Things.—Boarding the Wreck.—The Plotters.—Hunting for the Boat.
CHAPTER XIII. Escaping from the Wreck.—The Watchman.—Sinking.
CHAPTER XIV. A General Good Time.—The Harem.—French.
CHAPTER XV. Huck Loses the Raft.—In the Fog.—Huck Finds the Raft.—Trash.
CHAPTER XVI. Expectation.—A White Lie.—Floating Currency.—Running by Cairo.—Swimming Ashore.
CHAPTER XVII. An Evening Call.—The Farm in Arkansaw.—Interior Decorations.—Stephen Dowling Bots.—Poetical Effusions.
CHAPTER XVIII. Col. Grangerford.—Aristocracy.—Feuds.—The Testament.—Recovering the Raft.—The Wood—pile.—Pork and Cabbage.
CHAPTER XIX. Tying Up Day—times.—An Astronomical Theory.—Running a Temperance Revival.—The Duke of Bridgewater.—The Troubles of Royalty.
CHAPTER XX. Huck Explains.—Laying Out a Campaign.—Working the Camp—meeting.—A Pirate at the Camp—meeting.—The Duke as a Printer.
CHAPTER XXI. Sword Exercise.—Hamlet’s Soliloquy.—They Loafed Around Town.—A Lazy Town.—Old Boggs.—Dead.
CHAPTER XXII. Sherburn.—Attending the Circus.—Intoxication in the Ring.—The Thrilling Tragedy.
CHAPTER XXIII. Sold.—Royal Comparisons.—Jim Gets Home-sick.
CHAPTER XXIV. Jim in Royal Robes.—They Take a Passenger.—Getting Information.—Family Grief.
CHAPTER XXV. Is It Them?—Singing the “Doxologer.”—Awful Square—Funeral Orgies.—A Bad Investment .
CHAPTER XXVI. A Pious King.—The King’s Clergy.—She Asked His Pardon.—Hiding in the Room.—Huck Takes the Money.
CHAPTER XXVII. The Funeral.—Satisfying Curiosity.—Suspicious of Huck,—Quick Sales and Small.
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Trip to England.—“The Brute!”—Mary Jane Decides to Leave.—Huck Parting with Mary Jane.—Mumps.—The Opposition Line.
CHAPTER XXIX. Contested Relationship.—The King Explains the Loss.—A Question of Handwriting.—Digging up the Corpse.—Huck Escapes.
CHAPTER XXX. The King Went for Him.—A Royal Row.—Powerful Mellow.
CHAPTER XXXI. Ominous Plans.—News from Jim.—Old Recollections.—A Sheep Story.—Valuable Information.
CHAPTER XXXII. Still and Sunday—like.—Mistaken Identity.—Up a Stump.—In a Dilemma.
CHAPTER XXXIII. A Nigger Stealer.—Southern Hospitality.—A Pretty Long Blessing.—Tar and Feathers.
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Hut by the Ash Hopper.—Outrageous.—Climbing the Lightning Rod.—Troubled with Witches.
CHAPTER XXXV. Escaping Properly.—Dark Schemes.—Discrimination in Stealing.—A Deep Hole.
CHAPTER XXXVI. The Lightning Rod.—His Level Best.—A Bequest to Posterity.—A High Figure.
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Last Shirt.—Mooning Around.—Sailing Orders.—The Witch Pie.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Coat of Arms.—A Skilled Superintendent.—Unpleasant Glory.—A Tearful Subject.
CHAPTER XXXIX. Rats.—Lively Bed—fellows.—The Straw Dummy.
CHAPTER XL. Fishing.—The Vigilance Committee.—A Lively Run.—Jim Advises a Doctor.
CHAPTER XLI. The Doctor.—Uncle Silas.—Sister Hotchkiss.—Aunt Sally in Trouble.
CHAPTER XLII. Tom Sawyer Wounded.—The Doctor’s Story.—Tom Confesses.—Aunt Polly Arrives.—Hand Out Them Letters.
CHAPTER THE LAST. Out of Bondage.—Paying the Captive.—Yours Truly, Huck Finn.
마크트웨인은 본명 사무엘 클레멘스(Samuel Clemens)의 필명으로 미국 소설가이다. 주요 작품으로는 미시시피 강 유역 배경으로 개구쟁이 소년인 톰소여와 허클베리 핀의 모험을 그린 《톰소여의 모험》, 《허클베리핀의 모험》 이 있다. 그의 작품은 전 세계 어린이들에게 즐거운 동화처럼 읽히지만, 동시에 사회적 문제와 비판, 풍자를 닮고 있다.
그의 작품과 사상은 사후에도 큰 영향력을 유지하며 문학계와 독자들에게 영감을 주고 있다.
출생: 1835년 11월 30일, 미국 플로리다
사망: 1910년 4월 21일, 미국 코넷티컷