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The annotated Huckleberry Finn : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade)

Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (Editor, Writer of introduction, Writer of added commentary), E. W. Kemble (Illustrator)
"Michael Patrick Hearn, author of the national bestseller The Annotated Wizard of Oz, has done equal justice to this great American novel. A Twain literary sleuth and an authority on children's literature, he considers all the literary, social, historical, and autobiographical aspects of Twain's classic tale of Huck and Jim's trip down the mighty Mississippi. In lively and fascinating annotations, Hearn's notes draw on everything from letters, manuscripts, and contemporary newspapers to the author's own frequent revisions and notes, various critical responses to the publication, and much previously unpublished material. The substantial introduction is, in essence, a mini-biography of a book and a man whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), and it recounts the novel's remarkably prickly history, resulting in its being banned perhaps more than any other work in American history." "In this new edition, the characters of Hannibal, Missouri, come vividly alive, as if Hearn was steering the raft itself. We encounter, among others, the kindhearted Widow Douglas, the dreaded Miss Watson; the enlightened runaway slave Jim, whom Huck meets on Jackson's Island; an endless parade of thieves, slaveowners, and sheer opportunists; as well as Tom Sawyer and Aunt Sally, whose desire to adopt and "sivilize" Huck propels him to flee to the American West. Likewise, the Mississippi River "emerges as a living force regardless of the vain attempts of men to tame it." Hearn, by illustrating literary and historical themes that we never knew before, demonstrates that Huckleberry Finn did more than merely redefine the "bad-boy's book"; it galvanized and transformed world literature."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001
Norton, New York, 2001
Adventure stories
clxv, 480 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
9780393020397, 0393020398
46792816
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Civilizing Huck
Miss Watson
Tom Sawyer Waits
The Boys Escape Jim
Tom Sawyer's Gang
Deep-laid Plans
A Good Going-over
Grace Triumphant
"One of Tom Sawyer's Lies"
Huck and the Judge
Superstition
Huck's Father
The Fond Parent
Reform
He Went for Judge Thatcher
Huck Decides to Leave
Political Economy
Thrashing Around
Laying for Him
Locked in the Cabin
Sinking the Body
Resting
Sleeping in the Woods
Raising the Dead
Exploring the Island
Finding Jim
Jim's Escape
Signs
"Balum"
The Cave
The Floating House
The Find
Old Hank Bunker
In Disguise
Huck and the Woman
The Search
Prevarication
Going to Goshen
Slow Navigation
Borrowing Things
Boarding the Wreck
The Plotters
Hunting for the Boat
Escaping from the Wreck
The Watchman
Sinking
A General Good Time
The Harem
French
Huck Loses the Raft
In the Fog
Huck Finds the Raft
Trash
Expectations
A White Lie
Floating Currency
Running by Cairo
Swimming Ashore
An Evening Call
The Farm in Arkansaw
Interior Decorations
Stephen Dowling Bots
Poetical Effusions
Col. Grangerford
Aristocracy
Feuds
The Testament
Recovering the Raft
The Woodpile
Pork and Cabbage
Tying Up Day-times
An Astronomical Theory
Running a Temperance Revival
The Duke of Bridgewater
The Troubles of Royalty
Huck Explains
Laying Out a Campaign
Working the Campmeeting
A Pirate at the Camp-meeting
The Duke as a Printer
Sword Exercise
Hamlet's Soliloquy
They Loafed Around Town
A Lazy Town
Old Boggs
Dead
Sherburn
Attending the Circus
Intoxication in the Ring
The Thrilling Tragedy
"Sold"
Royal Comparisons
Jim Gets Homesick
Jim in Royal Robes
They Take a Passenger
Getting Information
Family Grief
Is It Them?
Sing the "Doxolojer"
Awful Square
Funeral Orgies
A Bad Investment
A Pious King
The King's Clergy
She Asked His Pardon
Hiding in the Room
Huck Takes the Money
The Funeral
Satisfying Curiosity
Suspicious of Huck
Quick Sales and Small Profits
The Trip to England
"The Brute!"
Mary Jane Decides to Leave
Huck Parting with Mary Jane
Mumps
The Opposition Line
Contested Relationship
The King Explains the Loss
A Question of Handwriting
Digging Up the Corpse
Huck Escapes
The King Went for Him
A Royal Row
Powerful Mellow
Ominous Plans
News from Jim
Old Recollections
A Sheep Story
Valuable Information
Still and Sunday-like
Mistaken Identity
Up a Stump
In a Dilemma
A Nigger Stealer
Southern Hospitality
A Pretty Long Blessing
Tar and Feathers
The Hut by the Ash-hopper
Outrageous
Climbing the Lightning Rod
Troubled with Witches
Escaping Properly
Dark Schemes
Discrimination in Stealing
A Deep Hole
The Lighting Rod
His Level Best
A Bequest to Posterity
A High Figure
The Last Shirt
Mooning Around
Sailing Orders
The Witch Pie
The Coat of Arms
A Skilled Superintendent
Unpleasant Glory
A Tearful Subject
Rats
Lively Bed-fellows
The Straw Dummy
Fishing
The Vigilance Committee
A Lively Run
Jim Advises a Doctor
The Doctor
Uncle Silas
Sister Hotchkiss
Aunt Sally in Trouble
Tom Sawyer Wounded
The Doctor's Story
Tom Confesses
Aunt Polly Arrives
"Hand Out Them Letters"
Out of Bondage
Paying the Captive
Yours Truly, Huck Finn
"Jim and the Dead Man"
The "Raft Episode"
An Unpublished Chapter
"Give Us a Rest"
The Corpse-Maker Crows
"The Child of Calamity"
They Both Weaken
Little Davy Steps In
After the Battle
Ed's Adventures
Something Queer
A Haunted Barrel
It Brings a Storm
The Barrel Pursues
Killed by Lightning
Allbright Atones
Ed Gets Mad
Snake or Boy?
"Snake Him Out"
Some Lively Lying
Off and Overboard