The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Paperback - 1997
by Twain, Mark
- Used
The recent discovery of the first half of Mark Twain's manuscript of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", long thought lost, was a monumental literary coup and an international news story. This landmark edition, which contains additions episodes and variations from the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of 30 manuscript pages, is destined to become the definitive version of this essential American classic.
Description
Details
- Title The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Author Twain, Mark
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Publishing Group, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-03-18
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP76411505
- ISBN 9780449912720 / 0449912728
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 5.58 x 1.16 in (21.03 x 14.17 x 2.95 cm)
- Reading level 990
- Library of Congress subjects Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character), Mississippi River
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96090920
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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About this book
From the publisher
From the jacket flap
*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
First Edition Identification
Categories
- Fiction & Literature Action & Adventure
- Fiction & Literature Fiction by Region American Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Classic Literature
- Fiction & Literature Individual Authors Mark Twain
- Fiction & Literature Literary Studies Literary Criticism
- Children & Juvenile Juvenile & Young Adult Juvenile Fiction & Literature Juvenile Classics
Media reviews
Citations
- Library Journal, 04/15/1997, Page 125
