The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is commonly considered among the Great American Novels. One of the first and most successful to use local vernacular in its character's dialogue, the novel is notable for its poignant description of the people and locations along the Mississippi River observed by its protagonist and narrator Huckleberry Finn and his partner in adventure, the slave Jim. Often controversial because of its sometimes coarse portrayal of race relations, the novel is among the most important in American literature.

A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is commonly considered among the Great American Novels. One of the first and most successful to use local vernacular in its character's dialogue, the novel is notable for its poignant description of the people and locations along the Mississippi River observed by its protagonist and narrator Huckleberry Finn and his partner in adventure, the slave Jim. Often controversial because of its sometimes coarse portrayal of race relations, the novel is among the most important in American literature.