Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The only authoritative text based on the complete, original manuscript (Mark Twain Library) - Hardcover

Twain, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520266099 ISBN 13: 9780520266094

Publisher: University of California Press, 2010

Synopsis

This 125th Anniversary edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is expanded with thoroughly updated notes and references, and a selection of original documents—letters, advertisements, playbills—some never before published, from Twain's first book tour.

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Review:

A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.

Book Description:

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0520266099
• ISBN 13: 9780520266094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 616
• Editor: Fischer Victor, Salamo Lin, Smith Harriet E., Blair Walter