The Adventures ff Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140366768 ISBN 13: 9780140366761

Publisher: Puffin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from Sherwood Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.D. Salinger -- "Huckleberry Finn," like the river which flows through its pages, is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of America.

About this title

Product Description:

Puffin Books Edition.

Review:

A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The 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 to be 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 fuller 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140366768
• ISBN 13: 9780140366761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400