From Its First Appearance Onward, Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Has Been Both Praised And Condemned, Enshrined As One Of The World's Great Novels And Banned From Libraries And Classrooms. This New Edition Is Designed To Enable Modern Readers To Explore The Sources Of Its Greatness, And Also To Take A Fresh, Open-minded Look At The Source Of The Current Controversy About Its Place In The Canon: Its Representation Of Race And Slavery. Based On The First American Edition Of 1885, This Broadview Edition Includes All 174 Original Illustrations By E.w. Kemble. Appendices Include Contemporary Reviews, Passages Deleted From The Original Manuscript, Advertisements For The Book, And A Range Of Materials, From Newspaper Articles To Minstrel Show Scripts To Contemporary Fiction, Showing How Race And Slavery Were Depicted In The Larger Culture At The Time.--publisher's Website. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Samuel Clemens/mark Twain: A Brief Chronology -- A Note On The Text -- Appendix A: Related Mark Twain Texts. A True Story Reprinted Word For Word As I Heard It, Atlantic Monthly (november 1874) ; From The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (1876) ; From Life On The Mississippi (1883) ; Jim's Ghost Story, Excluded Manuscript Passage From Huckleberry Finn (1876) ; Sequel To Huckleberry Finn, From Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) ; Introducing Huckleberry Finn (1895) ; From Chapters From My Autobiography, Xiii, North American Review (march 1907) -- Appendix B: Contemporary Representations Of Slavery And Race. From The Negro Out Of Politics, Chicago Tribune (24 April 1877) ; Blackface Minstrelsy (1880, 1884) ; Tom Shows (1882) ; From Thomas Nelson Page, Mars Chan, Century Magazine (april 1884) ; From George Washington Cable, The Freedman's Case In Equity, Century Magazine (january 1885) --^ Appendix C: Illustrating Huckleberry Finn. E.w. Kemble, Illustration For The Thompson Street Poker Club (1884) ; From E.w. Kemble, Illustrating Huckleberry Finn, The Colophon (february 1930) ; E.w. Kemble, Illustration Of African Slavery, Century Magazine (february 1890) ; E.w. Kemble, New Illustrations For Huckleberry Finn (1899). -- Appendix D: Selling Huckleberry Finn. Sales Prospectus Blurb For Huckleberry Finn (1884) ; Sales Prospectus Poster For Huckleberry Finn (1884) ; Promotional Flyer For Huck Finn (1885) ; Twins Of Genius Lecture Program Minneapolis -- St. Paul (1885) ; Advertisement From Webster & Co. Catalogue Advertising Editions Of Huck Finn (1892) -- Appendix E: Reception Of Huckleberry Finn. Reviews ; Coverage Of Concord Library's Banning Of Huckleberry Finn ; Reviews Of Twain's Performance Of The Novel Onstage. --^ Appendix F: Freedom Versus Fate. From The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (1876) ; From Life On The Mississippi (1883) ; From A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (1889) ; From Corn-pone Opinions (1901) ; From Twain's Seventieth Birthday Dinner Speech (1905) ; From The Turning Point Of My Life, Harper's Bazaar (february 1911). Samuel Clemens/mark Twain ; Edited By Stephen Railton. Includes Bibliographical References.

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