"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30" by Mark Twain is a novel often considered one of the Great American Works of Literature. In St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi River, during the 1830s–1840s, Huckleberry "Huck" Finn has come into a considerable sum of money following The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is placed under the strict guardianship of the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. However, things take a turn when Huck runs away to have adventures of his own, some of which are included in these chapters.