Huckleberry Finn : The Only Comprehensive Edition

Twain, Mark

ISBN 10: 0747526427 / ISBN 13: 9780747526421

Published by Bloomsbury, 1996

About this Item

Includes omitted episodes from handwritten manuscript and facsimiles of 30 manuscript pages. B&W IN-Text illustrations. Introduction by Justin Kaplan. 418 p.pages, 880g, 9 3/4" tall. No inscriptions. Jacket unclipped. Protected in removable clear plastic wrapper.

Seller Inventory # 020719

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Huckleberry Finn : The Only Comprehensive Edition
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747526427
• ISBN 13: 9780747526421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Well-illustrated
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +

About this title

Synopsis

This edition includes never-before-published episodes of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" that were excluded from the original version. These recently-discovered details illustrate how Twain intended his novel to be more powerful and controversial than the first edition turned out to be.

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.