num_pages: 656
description: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway once declared. First published in 1885, the book has delighted millions of readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, and is still banned in many schools and libraries. Now, Michael Patrick Hearn, author of the best-selling The Annotated Wizard of Oz, thoroughly reexamines the 116-year heritage of that archetypal American boy, Huck Finn, and follows his adventures along every bend of the mighty Mississippi River. Hearn's copious annotations draw on primary sources including the original manuscript, Twain's revisions and letters, and period accounts. Reproducing the original E. W. Kemble illustrations from the first edition, as well as countless archival photographs and drawings, some of them previously unpublished, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn is a book no family's library can do without; it may well prove to be the classic edition of the great American novel. (jacket flap)
language: English
title: The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
titlecomplete: The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
characters: Huckleberry Finn, Jim Upton, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
genres: Read For School, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Young Adult, Literature, High School, Classics, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 1248824
places: St. Petersburg, Missouri, The United States of America, Mississippi River, Missouri, Hannibal, Missouri
series: Adventures of Tom and Huck
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company