Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

complete text with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays

Pocketbok, 392 sidor

På English

Publicerades 17 december 2000 av Houghton Mifflin Company.

ISBN:
978-0-395-98078-1
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OCLC-nummer:
247442475

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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.

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River Adventure

I enjoyed this one less.

Huck escaping the intolerable civility of Widow Douglas meets Jim - they aim for freedom down the Mississippi.

Cons, violence, slavery. It's a powerful story of friendship that is often very difficult to read.

Ämnen

  • 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