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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known to the world by his pen-name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist, noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876, among many others. Klappentext "Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark Twain's greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the author's autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print. "Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni Morrison's moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark Twain's masterpiece. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included. Zusammenfassung This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn! complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley. The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations. ...

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Authors Thomas Cooley, Mark Twain
Assisted by Thoma Cooley (Editor), Thomas Cooley (Editor)
Publisher Norton W W Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.02.1999
 
EAN 9780393966404
ISBN 978-0-393-96640-4
Dimensions 142 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
Series Norton Critical Editions
A Norton Critical Edition
Norton Critical Edition
Norton Critical Editions
Norton Critical Edition
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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