The Misadventures of Huckleberry the Finn, a novel by Samuel Langhorne Mark Twain Clemens, was written under the penname Huckleberry Finn, originally appearing, due to a publisher’s error, as The Adventures of Fuckleberry Hinn. Because of the author’s inability to spell, the characters speak in eye dialect. The story recounts the “adventures” (originally misadventures) of Huckleberry the Finn, (not to be confused with Huckleberry Finn), a pre-adolescent white boy, and a black man as they journey south along the Mighty Mississippi River, seeking “freedom.”