Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The World's Best Reading) - Hardcover

Twain, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895772523 ISBN 13: 9780895772527

Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1986

Synopsis

The adventures of a young boy traveling down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave.

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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: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0895772523
• ISBN 13: 9780895772527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Illustrator: Kemble E. W.