Title Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism / Samuel Langhorne Clemens ; edited by Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, E. Hudson Long [and] Thomas Cooley

Edition Second edition Published New York : Norton, [1977] ©1977

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Description xi, 452 pages ; 22 cm Series A Norton critical edition Norton critical edition. Contents Preface to the second edition -- The text of adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Note on the text -- The Raftsmen's passage: Should it remain? -- Backgrounds and sources -- Criticism: -- The first American review / Thomas Sergeant Perry -- Huckleberry Finn: a review / Brander Matthews -- From "The Ordeal of Mark Twain" / Van Wyck Brooks -- Mark Twain: the artist as American / Bernard DeVoto -- Huck Finn aborning / Delancey Ferguson -- The greatness of Huckleberry Finn / Lionel Trilling -- An introduction to Huckleberry Finn / T.S. Eliot -- Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling and Huckleberry Finn / Leo Marx -- The uncomfortable ending of Huckleberry Finn / James M. Cox -- "The End. Yours truly, Huck Finn": postscript / Roy harvey Pearce -- A sound heart and deformed conscience /Henry Nash Smith -- Huckleberry Finn by Common Day / Edwin H. Cady -- You can't go home again / Kenneth S. Lynn -- Come back to the raft ag'inHuck honey! / Leslie Fiedler -- Change the joke and slip the yoke / Ralph Ellison -- Black magic--and whie--in Huckleberry Finn / Daniel G. Hoffman -- Tom and Huck / Walter blair -- Disenchantment: Tom Sawyer in Huckleberry Finn / Judith Fetterley -- Selected bibliography Summary The American classic is accompanied by critical studies by such scholars as Van Wyck Brooks, Lionel Trilling, and T.S. Eliot Notes Bibliography: p. 451-452 Bibliography Bibliography: pages 451-452 Subject Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Boys -- Fiction. Boys -- Travel -- Mississippi River -- Fiction. Boys -- Missouri -- Fiction. Fugitive slaves -- Fiction. Male friendship -- Fiction. Race relations -- Fiction. Runaway children -- Fiction. SUBJECT Mississippi River -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107218 Missouri -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107219 Genre/Form Fiction. Author Beatty, Richmond Croom, 1905-1961. Bradley, Sculley, 1897-1987. Cooley, Thomas, 1942- Long, E. Hudson (Eugene Hudson), 1908-1990. LC no. 76030648 ISBN 0393044548 0393091465 (paperback)

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