num_pages: 480
description: A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.
language: English
title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
titlecomplete: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
characters: Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, Jim Upton, Huckleberry Finn
genres: Classics, Adventure, Young Adult, Novels, High School, School, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1248861
places: Missouri, St. Petersburg, Missouri, Hannibal, Missouri, Mississippi River, The United States of America
series: Adventures of Tom and Huck
publisher: University of California Press