Classic Starts (R): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Retold from the Mark Twain Original - Hardcover

Twain, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402724993 ISBN 13: 9781402724992

Publisher: Sterling Juvenile, 2006

Synopsis

Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim. Twain's beloved tale, with its folksy language, creates an indelible image of pre-Civil War America with its sleepy river towns, con men, family feuds and a variety of colourful characters. Abridged for easier reading and carefully rewritten, with Classic Starts[trademark], young readers can experience the wonder of timeless stories from an early age.

About this title

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]

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Juvenile
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1402724993
• ISBN 13: 9781402724992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Ho Oliver
• Illustrator: Andreasen Dan