小说描写了哈克贝利为了追求自由生活所经历的惊险离奇的故事。全篇现实主义描绘和浪漫主义抒情交相辉映，尖锐深刻的揭露、幽默辛辣的讽刺以及浪漫传奇的描写浑然一体，形成了马克·吐温独特的艺术风格。本书不仅是最优秀的世界儿童惊险小说之一，而且是世界上现有的作品中最受欢迎和称赞的一部小说；它曾被美国电影界七次搬上银幕，达到了马克·吐温现实主义艺术技巧的高峰。本书为英文版。

懵懂顽皮的农村少年哈克从收养自己的寡妇家中逃了出来，并遇到了同样从主人家逃出来的黑奴吉姆。两人为了躲避追捕，乘坐一条木筏沿着密西西比河顺流而下，途中险象环生，惊险不断。最终，哈克回到了朋友们中间而吉姆得到了自由。

CHAPTER 1

Discover Moses and the Bulrushers

CHAPTER 2

Our Gang's Dark Oath

CHAPTER 3

We Ambuscade the A-rabs

CHAPTER 4

The Hair-ball Oracle

CHAPTER 5

Pap Starts in on a New Life

CHAPTER 6

Pap Struggles with the Death Angel

CHAPTER 7

I Fool Pap and Get Away

CHAPTER 8

I Spare Miss Watson's Jim

CHAPTER 9

The House of Death Floats By

CHAPTER 10

What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin

CHAPTER 11

They're After Us!

CHAPTER 12

"Better Let Blame Well Alone"

CHAPTER 13

Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"

CHAPTER 14

Was Solomon Wise?

CHAPTER 15

Fooling Poor Old Jim

CHAPTER 16

The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work

CHAPTER 17

The Grangerfords Take Me In

CHAPTER 18

Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat

CHAPTER 19

The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard

CHAPTER 20

What Royalty Did to Parkville

CHAPTER 21

An Arkansaw Difficulty

CHAPTER 22

Why the Lynching Bee Failed

CHAPTER 23

The Orneriness of Kings

CHAPTER 24

The King Turns Parson

CHAPTER 25

All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle

CHAPTER 26

I Steal the King's Plunder

CHAPTER 27

Dead Peter Has His Gold

CHAPTER 28

Overreaching Don't Pay

CHAPTER 29

I Light Out in the Storm

CHAPTER 30

The Gold Saves the Thieves

CHAPTER 31

You Can't Pray a Lie

CHAPTER 32

I Have a New Name

CHAPTER 33

The Pitiful Ending of Royalty

CHAPTER 34

We Cheer Up Jim

CHAPTER 35

Dark, Deep-laid Plans

CHAPTER 36

Trying to Help Jim

CHAPTER 37

Jim Gets His Witch Pie

CHAPTER 38

"Here a Captive Heart Busted"

CHAPTER 39

Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters

CHAPTER 40

A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue

CHAPTER 41

"Must 'A' Been Sperits"

CHAPTER 42

Why They Didn't Hang Jim

CHAPTER 43

Nothing More to Write