15 oz.; 344 pages; Pictorial HC no DJ slight edge/cover wear name written inside feels unread Companion Library ISBN 0448054515 Grosset & Dunlap Illus. Jo Polseno. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality. At the end, Huck definitively abandons the conventional cant which he has been raised to believe in when he makes the decision to go to hell rather than betray his friend Jim and send him back to slavery.