Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451526503 ISBN 13: 9780451526502

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

The greatest of American classics, featuring a new introduction, follows the waif Huck down the Mississippi with a runaway slave named Jim as he discovers the meaning of friendship and finds his own morality. Reissue.

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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.

Review

"One of the great scholarly enterprises of the century. . . . If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have." "London Telegraph [Michael Shelden]

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451526503
• ISBN 13: 9780451526502
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288