Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Twain, Mark; Moser, Barry

• ISBN13: 9780520053380
• ISBN10: 0520053389
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Lovingly and meticulously restored from the manuscript and other sources, this text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation. It includes all of the first edition illustrations, which Mark Twain called "rattling good."

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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