Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical EssaysHoughton Mifflin, 2000 - 392 من الصفحات 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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... humor of a people affords important insights into the nature of their culture . Thus Mark Twain's treatment of Shakespeare in his novel Huckleberry Finn helps us place the Elizabethan playwright in nineteenth- century American culture ...
... humor of a people affords important insights into the nature of their culture . Thus Mark Twain's treatment of Shakespeare in his novel Huckleberry Finn helps us place the Elizabethan playwright in nineteenth- century American culture ...
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... humor of the work , if it can be called such , depends almost wholly on the scrapes into which the quartet are led by the rascality of the impostors , " Huck's " lying , the negro's superstition and fear and on the irreverence which ...
... humor of the work , if it can be called such , depends almost wholly on the scrapes into which the quartet are led by the rascality of the impostors , " Huck's " lying , the negro's superstition and fear and on the irreverence which ...
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... humorous with a humor equal to that of Mr. Clemens , who , by the way , ought to send them a small check in acknowledgment of the compliment and the ad- vertising they have given him.22 Even the Concord newspaper , the Freeman ...
... humorous with a humor equal to that of Mr. Clemens , who , by the way , ought to send them a small check in acknowledgment of the compliment and the ad- vertising they have given him.22 Even the Concord newspaper , the Freeman ...
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VICTOR A DOYNO The Composition of Adventures | 9 |
GEORGE E BATES JR et al Barges from Historic Life Styles | 17 |
REV WILLIAM HENRY MILBURN from Pioneers Preachers | 30 |
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