Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain ; illustrated by E.W. Kemble and John Harley ; edited by Victor Fischer and Lin Salamo, with Walter Blair.
Contributors: Fischer, Victor, 1942-; Salamo, Lin.; Blair, Walter, 1900-
Series: The Works of Mark Twain
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1164
ISBN-13: 9780520237711
Subjects: Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Runaway children -- Fiction; Male friendship -- Fiction; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Mississippi River -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The text of this new scholarly edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the first ever to be based on Mark Twain's complete, original manuscript--including its first 665 pages, which had been lost for over a hundred years when they turned up in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. The text has been thoroughly re-edited using this manuscript, restoring thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation which had been corrupted by Mark Twain's typist, typesetters, and proofreaders. It includes all of the 174 first edition illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble, which the author called "most rattling good."
The editorial matter is extraordinarily rich. A new introduction tells the story of how Mark Twain's book was written, edited, published, and received, and spells out in detail the effect of the newly discovered manuscript on the text. Included are revised and updated maps of the Mississippi River valley, explanatory notes, glossary, and several documentary appendixes such as Twain's literary working notes, facsimile manuscript pages, facsimile reproductions of the author's revisions for his public reading tours, and contemporary advertisements and announcements. Also included are a description of the manuscript and all texts used in preparing this edition and complete lists of the author's revisions. The acclaimed 2001 Mark Twain Library edition (Library edition books are intended for general readers) was drawn from this comprehensive new scholarly edition in the Works of Mark Twain series.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [1121]-1164).
"This 2002 edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn supersedes the 1988 edition as Volume 8 in the Works of Mark Twain"--Ser. t.p.