Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Twain, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780393966404
• ISBN10: 0393966402
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	vii	(4)
A Note on the Text and Illustrations	xi
The Text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1	(392)
Contexts and Sources	299	(30)
Mark Twain
[Letters about Huckleberry Finn]	299	(4)
From the Autobiography	301	(2)
THE "POET LARIAT," THE "SWEET SINGER OF MICHIGAN," AND YOUNG SAM CLEMENS	303	(4)
Bloodgood H. Cutter
On the Death of His Beloved Wife	303	(2)
Julia A. Moore
Little Andrew	305	(1)
Sam Clemens
To Jennie and To Mollie	306	(1)
Publishing Circular Confidential Terms to Agents	307	(1)
A BANNED BOOK: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF "TROUBLE" FOR HUCK'S BOOK	308	(2)
Boston Transcript, March 1885	308	(1)
Springfield Republican, March 1885	308	(1)
Mark Twain
Replies to the Newspapers	308	(1)
John H. Wallace
The Case against Huck Finn	309	(1)
Earl F. Briden
Kemble's "Specialty" and the Pictorial Countertext of Huckleberry Finn	310	(9)
David Carkeet
The Dialects in Huckleberry Finn	319	(1)
Mark Twain
A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It	320	(9)
Sociable Jimmy	324	(5)
Criticism	329	(64)
EARLY RESPONSES	329	(8)
[William Ernest Henley]
[Review] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	329	(1)
Brander Matthews
[Review: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]	330	(4)
[Robert Bridges]
Mark Twain's Blood-Curdling Humor	334	(1)
Thomas Sergeant Perry
[The First Major American Review]	334	(3)
MODERN VIEWS	337	(56)
Victor A. Doyno
From Writing Huck Finn: Mark Twain's Creative Process	337	(11)
T.S. Eliot
[Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]	348	(6)
Jane Smiley
Say It Ain't So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twain's "Masterpiece"	354	(8)
David L. Smith
Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse	362	(13)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Jimmy [from Was Huck Black?]	375	(8)
James R. Kincaid
Voices on the Mississippi [Review of Was Huck Black?]	383	(2)
Toni Morrison
[This Amazing, Troubling Book]	385	(8)
Mark Twain: A Chronology	393	(4)
Selected Bibliography	397