Adventures of Huckleberry FinnAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known to the world by his pen-name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist, noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876, among many others. Thomas Cooley (PhD, Indiana University) is professor of English at The Ohio State University. In addition to Back to the Lake, he is the editor of The Norton Sampler, The Norton Critical Edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the author of several other books, among them Educated Lives: The Rise of Modern Autobiography in America and The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America.
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Descrizione libro WW Norton & Co, United States, 2010. Paperback. Condizione: New. Third Edition. Language: English. Brand new Book. "Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark Twain's greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the author's autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print. "Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni Morrison's moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark Twain's masterpiece. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included. Codice articolo LIB9780393966404
Descrizione libro WW Norton & Co, United States, 2010. Paperback. Condizione: New. Third Edition. Language: English. Brand new Book. "Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark Twain's greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the author's autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print. "Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni Morrison's moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark Twain's masterpiece. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included. Codice articolo LIB9780393966404
Descrizione libro W. W. Norton & Company 1999-02-08, New York, 1999. paperback. Condizione: New. Codice articolo 9780393966404
Descrizione libro W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. Condizione: New. book. Codice articolo M0870865048
Descrizione libro W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. Paperback. Condizione: New. Third Edition. Codice articolo DADAX0393966402
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Descrizione libro W. W. Norton & Company 12/17/1998, 1998. Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Book. Codice articolo BBS-9780393966404
Descrizione libro WW Norton & Co. Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 2 working days. Codice articolo B9780393966404
Descrizione libro W.W. Norton & Company/Viva Books, 2010. Softcover. Condizione: New. 5th or later edition. This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley. The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations. "Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark Twainâ s greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the authorâ s autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print. "Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni Morrisonâ s moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark Twainâ s masterpiece. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included. Contents: Civilizing huck â " Miss Watson â " Tom sawyer waits â ¢ The boys escape jim â " Tom sawyerâ s gang â " Deep-laid plans â ¢ A good going over â " Grace triumphant â " "One of tom sawyerâ s lies" â ¢ Huck and judge â " superstition  Huckâ s father â " The fond parent â " Reform â ¢ He went for judge thatcher â " Huck decides to leave â " political economy â " Thrashing around â ¢ Laying for him â " locked in the cabin â " Sinking the body â " Resting â ¢ Sleeping in the woods â " raising the dead â " exploring the island â " finding jim â " Jimâ s escape â " sings â " "Balum" â ¢ The cave â " The floating house â ¢ The find â " old hunk Bunker â " in disguise â ¢ Huck and the woman The search â " Prevarication â " Going to Goshen â ¢ Slow navigation â " Borrowing things â " boarding the wreck- The plotters â " hunting for the boat â ¢ Escaping form the wreck â " the watchman â " sinking â ¢ A general good time â " The harem - French â ¢ The doctor â " Uncle silas â " Sister Hotchkiss â " Aunt sally in trouble â ¢ Tom sawyer wounded â " The doctorâ s story â " Tom confesses â " Aunt polly arrives â " "Hand out them letters" â ¢ Out of bondage â " Paying the captive â " Yours truly, huck finn Printed Pages: 398. Codice articolo 8683BV
Descrizione libro WW Norton Publishers. Condizione: New. Brand New. Codice articolo 0393966402