Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Subtitle: with an introduction and contemporary criticism
By: Mark Twain ; edited by Mary R. Reichardt
Contributors: Reichardt, Mary R.
Series: Ignatius critical editions
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781586172961
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910; 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: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is, according to many critics and fond readers, the great American novel. Full of vibrant American characters, intriguing regional dialects and folkways, and down-home good humor, it also hits Americans in one of their greatest and on-going sore spots: the fraught issue of racism. As Huck and Jim float down the Mississippi and encounter all manner of people and situations, and as Huck struggles mightily with his conscience concerning Jim, the novel strongly invites a moral and religious perspective. In this new edition, Mary R. Reichardt’s introduction places the book in its historical and biographical context, and several critical articles examine such issues as the book’s moral implications, religious contexts, and status as an American epic. 

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.