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- catalog abstract ""This edition prints the first and only text of Mark Twain's masterpiece ever based on his complete manuscript - including its first 663 pages, half the book, lost for over a hundred years until discovered in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. Using this newly restored manuscript, the editors have recovered thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation which were misread, "corrected," or simply overlooked by Mark Twain's "typewriter copyist" and his typesetters. The text includes all 174 of the "rattling good" first edition illustrations by E.W. Kemble. It restores the raftsmen's episode, which Mark Twain casually agreed to let his publisher leave out of the first edition, and includes John Harley's lively drawings for it. And at the back of the book is a new gathering of manuscript passages, some photographically reproduced, showing how and with what extraordinary artistry Mark Twain revised his work. They include Jim's comically grotesque "ghost" story, unknown before the recent discovery of the manuscript. In addition, the editors provide more than seventy pages of detailed historical notes, a glossary, and five maps of the Mississippi River valley that locate various episodes in the story. Combining uniquely rich historical materials with a text as Mark Twain wanted it to be read, this should become the standard edition for all readers of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12131228.
- catalog contributor b12131229.
- catalog contributor b12131230.
- catalog coverage "Mississippi River Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Missouri Fiction.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""This edition prints the first and only text of Mark Twain's masterpiece ever based on his complete manuscript - including its first 663 pages, half the book, lost for over a hundred years until discovered in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. Using this newly restored manuscript, the editors have recovered thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation which were misread, "corrected," or simply overlooked by Mark Twain's "typewriter copyist" and his typesetters. The text includes all 174 of the "rattling good" first edition illustrations by E.W. Kemble. It restores the raftsmen's episode, which Mark Twain casually agreed to let his publisher leave out of the first edition, and includes John Harley's lively drawings for it. And at the back of the book is a new gathering of manuscript passages, some photographically reproduced, showing how and with what extraordinary artistry Mark Twain revised his work. They include Jim's comically grotesque "ghost" story, unknown before the recent discovery of the manuscript. In addition, the editors provide more than seventy pages of detailed historical notes, a glossary, and five maps of the Mississippi River valley that locate various episodes in the story. Combining uniquely rich historical materials with a text as Mark Twain wanted it to be read, this should become the standard edition for all readers of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [510]-547).".
- catalog extent "xxvii, 561 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.".
- catalog identifier "0520228065".
- catalog identifier "0520228383 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Mark Twain library".
- catalog isPartOf "Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Mark Twain library.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog relation "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi River Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Missouri Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.4 21".
- catalog subject "Boys Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Fugitive slaves Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Male friendship Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS1305.A2 F5 2001".
- catalog subject "Race relations Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Runaway children Fiction.".
- catalog title "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain ; illustrated by E.W. Kemble and John Harley ; editors, Victor Fischer ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "Adventure fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Humorous fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".