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Mark Twain's adventurous story of boyhood is now available in an
unabridged paperback edition for today's young readers. Whether
he's tricking others into doing his work or running away with
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer always manages to wiggle his way out
of trouble. But when he accidentally witnesses a murder, Tom is
suddenly faced with trouble that's well beyond fun mischief-making.
Mark Twain's story of boyhood and childhood antics is now available
in an unabridged paperback edition perfect for young readers'
libraries.
Fresh off of his escapades with Tom Sawyer and with six thousand
dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father,
Pap, who wants Huck’s fortune and will stop at nothing to get his
hands on it. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets Miss Watson’s slave,
Jim, who has run away after learning that Miss Watson may sell him.
Jim plans to head north, find work, and buy his wife and children
out of slavery. Huck joins him on a salvaged raft, beginning a
raucous journey that transforms into a deep reckoning with human
frailty and the hypocrisy of the antebellum South.
Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six thousand dollars
in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who
wants Huck's fortune and will stop at nothing to get his hands on
it. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets Miss Watson’s slave, Jim, who
has run away after learning that Miss Watson may sell him. Jim
plans to head north, find work, and buy his wife and children out
of slavery. Huck joins him on a salvaged raft, beginning a raucous
journey that transforms into a deep reckoning with human frailty
and the hypocrisy of the antebellum South.
"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.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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