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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain
Introduction by George Saunders

By Mark Twain
Introduction by George Saunders

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

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    About The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Long cherished by readers of all ages, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a powerful parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.

    The mighty Mississippi River of the antebellum South gives the novel both its colorful backdrop and its narrative shape, as the runaways Huck and Jim—a young rebel against civilization allied with an escaped slave—drift down its length on a flimsy raft. Their journey, at times rollickingly funny but always deadly serious in its potential consequences, takes them ever deeper into the slave-holding South, and our appreciation of their shared humanity grows as we watch them travel physically farther from yet morally closer to the freedom they both passionately seek.

    About The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Introduction by George Saunders
    Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx
     
    “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885), it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues. As Norman Mailer has said, “The mark of how good Huckleberry Finn has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page.”

    About The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    "A GOLD MINE FOR SCHOLARS."

    *Deidre Carmody

    The New York Times



    Now, in this extraordinary literary discovery, the original first half of Mark Twain’s American masterpiece is available for the first time ever to a general readership. Lost for more than a century, the passages reinstated in this edition reveal a novel even more controversial than the version Twain published in 1885, and provide an invaluable insight into his creative process.



    The changes that Mark Twain made indicate that he frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational work than the book he finally published. Even in its smallest variations, the original manuscript demonstrates the skill, the restraint, and the constraints that affected Mark Twain’s thinking. This edition, then, not only presents the Huckleberry Finn that has delighted and provoked readers everywhere for more than a century, but also brings forward the original book behind the book.



    A breakthrough of unparalleled impact, this comprehensive edition of an American classic is the final rebuttal in the tireless debate of "what Mark Twain really meant."



    "[A] masterly restoration . . . I wish this new version of Huckleberry Finn would be distributed to all the nation’s classrooms as the basic text and lead to a badly needed reconsideration of the questions it raises."

    *James A. McPherson

    Chicago Tribune



    "Thoughtfully respects Twain’s intentions."

    *Gary Lee Stronum

    The Cleveland Plain Dealer



    With a foreword and addendum by Victor Doyno

    About The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with  the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark  Twain’s story about a young boy and his journey  down the Mississippi was the first great novel to  speak in a truly American voice. Influencing  subsequent generations of writers — from Sherwood  Anderson to Twain’s fellow Missourian,  T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William  Faulkner to J.D. Salinger –  Huckleberry Finn, like the river  which flows through its pages, is one of the great  sources which nourished and still nourishes the  literature of America.

    About The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote, “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Nigger Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft thrillingly through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat, betrayal by rogues, and the final threat from the bourgeoisie. Informing all this is the presence of the River, described in palpable detail by Mark Twain, the former steamboat pilot, who transforms it into a richly metaphoric entity. Twain’s other great innovation was the language of the book itself, which is expressive in a completely original way. “The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature,” Robert Penn Warren noted. “It is a language capable of poetry.”

    About The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Introduction by George Saunders
    Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx
     
    “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that spawned controversy right from the start (it was banished from the Concord library shelves in 1885), it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat and betrayal by rogues. As Norman Mailer has said, “The mark of how good Huckleberry Finn has to be is that one can compare it to a number of our best modern American novels and it stands up page for page.”

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    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 06, 2010 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307475565

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Aug 14, 2001 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757372

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Mar 18, 1997 | 448 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780449912720

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Feb 01, 1981 | 320 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553210798

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Apr 01, 2003 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780553897425

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 464 Pages | ISBN 9780679642053
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    “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. . . . There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” —Ernest Hemingway

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