The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Revised Edition

by Twain, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780451526502
• ISBN10: 0451526503
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful tale of adventure and self-discovery along the mighty Mississippi. Enjoy this classic over and over again with& this handsome reproduction of the original edition, adorned& with 174 exuberant illustrations by E. W. Kemble.

Author Biography

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut, in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve, when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing, but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental-and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature."

Table of Contents

The Life of Mark Twain	p. v
Preface	p. ix
Notice	p. xix
Explanatory	p. xix
Discover Moses and the Bulrushers	p. 1
Our Gang's Dark Oath	p. 4
We Ambuscade the A-rabs	p. 10
The Hair-ball Oracle	p. 15
Pap Starts in on a New Life	p. 18
Pap Struggles with the Death Angel	p. 23
I Fool. Pap and Get Away	p. 30
I Spare Miss Watson's Jim	p. 36
The House of Death Floats By	p. 47
What Comes of Handlin Snake-skin	p. 52
They're After Us!	p. 55
"Better Let Blame Well Alone"	p. 63
Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott"	p. 70
Was Solomon Wise?	p. 76
Fooling Poor Old Jim	p. 80
The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work	p. 86
The Grangerfords Take Me In	p. 95
Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat	p. 104
The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard	p. 117
What Royalty Did to Parkville	p. 126
An Arkansaw Difficulty	p. 135
Why the Lynching Bee Failed	p. 145
The Orneriness of Kings	p. 151
The King Turns Parson	p. 157
All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle	p. 163
I Steal the King's Plunder	p. 171
Dead Peter Has His Gold	p. 179
Overreaching Don't Pay	p. 186
I Light Out in the Storm	p. 195
The Gold Saves the Thieves	p. 205
You Can't Pray a Lie	p. 209
I Have a New Name	p. 218
The Pitiful Ending of Royalty	p. 224
We Cheer Up Jim	p. 232
Dark, Deep-Laid Plans	p. 238
Trying to Help Jim	p. 245
Jim Gets His Witch Pie	p. 251
"Here a Captive Heart Busted"	p. 258
Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters	p. 265
A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue	p. 270
"Must 'a' Been Sperits"	p. 277
Why They Didn't Hang Jim	p. 284
Chapter the Last. Nothing More to Write	p. 292
Afterword	p. 295
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