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"Finally, an expansive, comprehensive analysis of one of Mark Twain's most prescient works. A primary and secondary resource that scholars and, more importantly, classroom teachers can readily access and on which they can rely. This book captures the historical moment, Mark Twain's personal and authorial perspectives, and his crucial attention to language and verisimilitude. Brilliant!"—Jocelyn A. Chadwick, coauthor of Teaching Literature in the Context of Literacy Instruction
List of contents
Contents
About the Texts in This Volume
Abbreviations Used in This Volume
Offensive Language in Pudd’nhead Wilson
Acknowledgments
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON: A TALE. THE MORGAN MANUSCRIPT VERSION
Addenda to the Morgan Manuscript
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON: A TALE. THE REVISED VERSION
THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS: A POSTSCRIPT TO PUDD'NHEAD WILSON
EXPLANATORY NOTES
The Morgan Manuscript Version
The Revised Version
“Those Extraordinary Twins”
APPENDIXES
A. MS Berg: Contents and Numbering
B. MS Morgan: Contents and Numbering
C. Mark Twain’s Working Notes
D. Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894
E. Contract with the American Publishing Company
F. American Publishing Company Advertising Flyer
G. Illustrating Pudd’nhead Wilson
H. [“The Man with Negro Blood”]
Introduction
TEXTUAL APPARATUS
Note on the Texts
Guide to the Textual Apparatus
Description of Source Documents
Emendations and Historical Collations:
The Morgan Manuscript Version
The Revised Version
“Those Extraordinary Twins”
Word Division in This Volume
References
About the author
Benjamin Griffin is an editor at the Mark Twain Project, which is housed within the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. For more than four decades the Project has been producing a complete scholarly edition of everything the author wrote. Griffin's previous editorial credits include the three volumes of the best-selling Autobiography of Mark Twain.
