Annotated Huckleberry Finn

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 - 480 pages
A sumptuous annotated edition of the great American novel.

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway once declared. First published in 1885, the book has delighted millions of readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, and is still banned in many schools and libraries. Now, Michael Patrick Hearn, author of the best-selling The Annotated Wizard of Oz, thoroughly reexamines the 116-year heritage of that archetypal American boy, Huck Finn, and follows his adventures along every bend of the mighty Mississippi River. Hearn's copious annotations draw on primary sources including the original manuscript, Twain's revisions and letters, and period accounts. Reproducing the original E. W. Kemble illustrations from the first edition, as well as countless archival photographs and drawings, some of them previously unpublished, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn is a book no family's library can do without; it may well prove to be the classic edition of the great American novel.

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Contents

Introduction to The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
xiii
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN 1
xlvi
CHAPTER VII
71
Laying for HimLocked in the CabinSinking the BodyResting
79
CHAPTER IX
97
CHAPTER XI
110
CHAPTER XII
120
CHAPTER XIII
130
The Cave The Floating House
281
Is It Them? Sing the Doxolojer Awful Square Funeral
291
The Funeral Satisfying Curiosity Suspicious of Huck
308
The Trip to England The Brute Mary Jane Decides to Leave
322
X X I
338
CHAPTER XXXIII
358
V
374
VI
384

Escaping from the WreckThe WatchmanSinking
137
CHAPTER XV
144
CHAPTER XVI
152
CHAPTER XVII
165
CHAPTER XVIII
183
CHAPTER XIX
201
CHAPTER XX
224
CHAPTER XXI
240
CHAPTER XXII
254
SherburnAttending the Circus Intoxication in the Ring
260
CHAPTER XXIV
273
CHAPTER XXXVII
391
CHAPTER XXXVIII
399
CHAPTER XXXIX
407
CHAPTER XL
414
Fishing The Vigilance CommitteeA Lively RunJim Advises
420
CHAPTER XLII
432
CHAPTER THE LAST
442
The Raft Episode
452
Bibliography
471
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About the author (2001)

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910. Michael Patrick Hearn has written for the New York Times, The Nation, and many other publications. His books include From the Silver Age to Stalin: Russian Children's Book Illustration and The Porcelain Cat; he has edited The Victorian Fairy Tale Book, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, The Annotated Christmas Carol, and The Annotated Huckleberry Finn. Hearn lives in New York City.

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