Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations

Mark Twain

Univ of California Press, Sep 21, 2021 - Fiction - 616 pages

A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project.

This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain’s masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens’s papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume features the gorgeous original illustrations that Twain commissioned from Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley and also includes historical notes, a glossary, maps, selected manuscript pages, and even a gallery of letters, advertisements, and playbills from Twain’s first “book tour” to promote the original publication—everything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again.

Contents

• Miss Watson: 3
• Huck Loses the Raft In the Fog Huck Finds: 15
• Contested Relationship The King Explains the Loss: 29
• It aint Good Morals: 84
• Thinking it Over: 113
• And asked me if I Liked Her: 148
• And Dogs aComing: 159
• SoldRoyal Comparisons Jim Gets Homesick: 196
• Is It Them?Singing the Doxolojer Awful: 211
• The Funeral Satisfying Curiosity Suspicious: 237
• ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: 250
• On the Raft: 273
• Hamlets Soliloquy: 286
• Sherburn steps: 294
• Adolphus: 308
• The Coat of Arms A Skilled Superintendent Un: 321
• 1: 322
• The Doctor: 324
• The Undertaker: 339
• Fishing The Vigilance Committee A Lively Run: 341
• He Wrote: 353
• Out of Bondage Paying the Captive: 362
• 4: 376
• 5: 388
• Sleeping in the Woods Raising the Dead Exploring: 399
• The Find Old Hank Bunker In Disguise: 409
• 45: 422
• GLOSSARY: 452
• MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILES: 492
• REFERENCES: 510
• 63: 515
• Huck and the Woman The Search Prevarication: 525
• Escaping from the Wreck The Watchman Sinking: 538
• NOTE ON THE TEXT: 549

About the author

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations; Volume 9 of Mark Twain Library, Mark Twain
• Author: Mark Twain
• Editors: Edward Windsor Kemble, John J. Harley, Victor Fischer, Lin Salamo, Harriet E. Smith, Walter Blair
• Illustrated by: Edward Windsor Kemble, John J. Harley
• Contributor: Bancroft Library. Mark Twain Project
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2021
• ISBN: 0520343646, 9780520343641
• Length: 616 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Coming of Age; Fiction / Friendship; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / General