Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations

Mark Twain, Victor Fischer, Lin Salamo, Harriet E. Smith, Walter Blair

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780520343641
• eBook ISBN: 9780520380431
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Classici

A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project.

This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain’s masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens’s papers at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume features the gorgeous original illustrations that Twain commissioned from Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley and also includes historical notes, a glossary, maps, selected manuscript pages, and even a gallery of letters, advertisements, and playbills from Twain’s first “book tour” to promote the original publication—everything the discerning reader needs to enjoy this classic of American literature again and again.

Table of contents

• Subvention
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• Mark Twain on Tour
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Notice
• Explanatory
• 1.   Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits
• 2.   The Boys Escape Jim.—Tom Sawyer’s Gang.—Deep-laid Plans
• 3.   A Good Going-over.—Grace Triumphant.—“One of Tom Sawyer’s Lies”
• 4.   Huck and the Judge.—Superstition
• 5.   Huck’s Father.—The Fond Parent.—Reform
• 6.   He Went for Judge Thatcher.—Huck Decides to Leave.—Political Economy.—Thrashing Around
• 7.   Laying for Him.—Locked in the Cabin.—Sinking the Body.—Resting
• 8.   Sleeping in the Woods.—Raising the Dead.—Exploring the Island.—Finding Jim.—Jim’s Escape.—Signs.—“Balum”
• 9.   The Cave.—The Floating House
• 10.   The Find.—Old Hank Bunker.—In Disguise
• 11.   Huck and the Woman.—The Search.—Prevarication.—Going to Goshen
• 12.   Slow Navigation.—Borrowing Things.—Boarding the Wreck.—The Plotters.—Hunting for the Boat
• 13.   Escaping from the Wreck.—The Watchman.—Sinking
• 14.   A General Good Time.—The Harem.—French
• 15.   Huck Loses the Raft.—In the Fog.—Huck Finds the Raft.—Trash
• 16.   “Give Us a Rest.”—The Corpse-Maker Crows.—“The Child of Calamity.”—They Both Weaken.—Little Davy Steps In.—After the Battle.—Ed’s Adventures.—Something Queer.—A Haunted Barrel.—It Brings a Storm.— The Barrel Pursues.—Killed by Lightning.—Allbright Atones.—Ed Gets Mad.—Snake or Boy?—“Snake Him Out.”—Some Lively Lying.—Off and Overboard.—Expectations.—A White Lie.—Floating Currency.—Running by Cairo.—Swimming Ashore
• 17.   An Evening Call.—The Farm in Arkansaw.—Interior Decorations.—Stephen Dowling Bots.—Poetical Effusions
• 18.   Col. Grangerford.—Aristocracy.—Feuds.—The Testament.—Recovering the Raft.—The Wood-pile.—Pork and Cabbage
• 19.   Tying Up Daytimes.—An Astronomical Theory.—Running a Temperance Revival.—The Duke of Bridgewater.—The Troubles of Royalty
• 20.   Huck Explains.—Laying Out a Campaign.—Working the Camp-meeting.—A Pirate at the Camp-meeting.—The Duke as a Printer
• 21.   Sword Exercise.—Hamlet’s Soliloquy.—They Loafed Around Town.—A Lazy Town.—Old Boggs.—Dead
• 22.   Sherburn.—Attending the Circus.—Intoxication in the Ring.—The Thrilling Tragedy
• 23.   “Sold!”—Royal Comparisons.—Jim Gets Homesick
• 24.   Jim in Royal Robes.—They Take a Passenger.—Getting Information.—Family Grief
• 25.   “Is It Them?”—Singing the “Doxolojer.”—Awful Square.—Funeral Orgies.—A Bad Investment
• 26.   A Pious King.—The King’s Clergy.—She Asked His Pardon.—Hiding in the Room.—Huck Takes the Money
• 27.   The Funeral.—Satisfying Curiosity.—Suspicious of Huck.—Quick Sales and Small Profits
• 28.   The Trip to England.—“The Brute!”—Mary Jane Decides to Leave.—Huck Parting with Mary Jane.—Mumps.—The Opposition Line
• 29.   Contested Relationship.—The King Explains the Loss.—A Question of Handwriting.—Digging up the Corpse.—Huck Escapes
• 30.   The King Went for Him.—A Royal Row.—Powerful Mellow
• 31.   Ominous Plans.—News of Jim.—Old Recollections.—A Sheep Story.—Valuable Information
• 32.   Still and Sunday-like.—Mistaken Identity.—Up a Stump.—In a Dilemma
• 33.   A Nigger Stealer.—Southern Hospitality.—A Pretty Long Blessing.—Tar and Feathers
• 34.   The Hut by the Ash-hopper.—Outrageous.—Climbing the Lightning Rod.—Troubled with Witches
• 35.   Escaping Properly.—Dark Schemes.—Discrimination in Stealing.—A Deep Hole
• 36.   The Lightning Rod.—His Level Best.—A Bequest to Posterity.—A High Figure
• 37.   The Lost Shirt.—Mooning Around.—Sailing Orders.— The Witch Pie
• 38.   The Coat of Arms.—A Skilled Superintendent.—Unpleasant Glory.—A Tearful Subject
• 39.   Rats.—Lively Bed-fellows.—The Straw Dummy
• 40.   Fishing.—The Vigilance Committee.—A Lively Run.—Jim Advises a Doctor
• 41.   The Doctor.—Uncle Silas.—Sister Hotchkiss.—Aunt Sally in Trouble
• 42.   Tom Sawyer Wounded.—The Doctor’s Story.—Tom Confesses.—Aunt Polly Arrives.—“Hand Out Them Letters”
• Chapter the Last: Out of Bondage.—Paying the Captive.—Yours Truly Huck Finn
• Maps
• Explanatory Notes
• Glossary
• Three Passages from the Manuscript
• Manuscript Facsimiles
• References
• Note on the Text