Title:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an authoritative text, contexts and sources, criticism / Mark Twain ; edited by Thomas Cooley.
Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Cooley, Thomas, 1942-
Publication Information:
New York : Norton, c1999.
Call Number:
PS1305 .A2 C66 1999
Abstract:
Reprints the Iowa-California text of the classic novel about Huck Finn, son of the town drunk, who joins an escaped slave in a bid for freedom down the Mississippi River; and includes annotations, documents, information about the author, and critical excerpts.
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9780393966404
Series:
Norton critical edition
Norton critical edition.
Physical Description:
xi, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Preface to the third edition -- Note on the text and illustrations -- The text of adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Contexts and sources -- Letters about Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- From the autobiography / Mark Twain -- The "poet lariat," the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," and young Sam Clemens -- On the death of his beloved wife / Bloodgood H. Cutter -- Little Andrew / Julia A. Moore -- To Jennie and to Mollie / Sam Clemens -- Publishing circular, confidential terms to agents -- Banned book: One hundred years of "trouble" for Huck's book -- Boston transcript, March 1885 -- Springfield Republican, March 1885 -- Replies to the newspapers / Mark Twain -- Case against Huck Finn / John H. Wallace -- Kemble's "specialty" and the pictorial countertext of Huckleberry Finn / Earl F. Briden -- Dialects in Huckleberry Finn / David Carkeet -- True story, repeated word for word as I heard it / Mark Twain -- Sociable Jimmy / Mark Twain -- Criticism -- Early responses -- Review: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / William Ernest Henley -- Review: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Brander Matthews -- Mark Twain's blood-curdling humor / Robert Bridges -- [First major American review] / Thomas Sergeant Perry -- Modern views -- From Writing Huck Finn: Mark Twain's creative process / Victor A. Doyno -- Introduction to adventures of Huckleberry Finn / T.S. Eliot -- Say it ain't so, Huck: Second thoughts on Mark Twain's "masterpiece" / Jane Smiley -- Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse / David L. Smith -- Jimmy [from Was Huck black?] / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Voices on the Mississippi [review of Was Huck black?] / James R. Kincaid -- This amazing, troubling book / Toni Morrison -- Mark Twain: Chronology -- Selected bibliography.
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