Paperback, 392 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
complete text with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays New Riverside editions
by Mark Twain
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In addition to the entire text of what some consider the quintessential American novel, this comprehensive volume features materials that help place the novel in perspective with its time and place. "Contexts" includes essays on the composition of the novel, the people and history of the Upper Mississippi Valley, slavery, and the critical reception of the novel upon its publication. "Readings" includes Henry Nash Smith's introduction to the 1958 Riverside Edition of the novel, as well as critical essays.
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