The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Great Illustrated Classics) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603400338 ISBN 13: 9781603400336

Publisher: Waldman Publishing Corp., 2008

Synopsis

Down the Mississippi! Huckleberry Finn escapes from his evil, drunken father who is trying to steal his treasure. Huck befriends Jim, a runaway slave and together they float towards freedom on a raft down the Mississippi river. They encounter thieves and murderers, con men and hucksters as they journey together. Mark Twain's timeless tale of friendship and adventure shows us a boy coming of age and learning about life's pains and pleasures!

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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: Waldman Publishing Corp.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1603400338
• ISBN 13: 9781603400336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240