Subgenre: sacrifice, imagination, recklessness, courage, deception, redemption, fear, honor, responsibility - Subgenre: slavery - Subgenre: river voyages - Subgenre: Americans (U.S.), African-Americans, Southerners (U.S.) - Subgenre: boyhood, coming of age, adolescence - Subgenre: authority & dissent, honor & dishonor, courage & cowardice, nature & culture, right & wrong, individual & family or group, freedom & constraints, guilt & innocence, tolerance & intolerance, truth & falsehood, justice & injustice, hope & despair, loyalty & betrayal, individualism & conformity - Subgenre: rubes & bumpkins, captives, hustlers & con artists, charmers, impostors, runaways, fugitives & escapees, poor whites - Subgenre: on the lam - Subgenre: racism - Subgenre: cross-cultural friendships, friendship between men or boys - Subgenre: humorous fiction, general, farce - Subgenre: satire, sense of place, social criticism, dialect, picaresque, literary adventure novels - Subgenre: small towns & villages, funerals & wakes, rivers - Format: Hardcover - Author: Mark Twain