Mark Twain

"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

An abridged version of Twain's tale of a mischievous boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town, narrated by Wishbone the television dog. Includes information about the author and setting of the story, as well as a list of characters.