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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... novel includes countless deceptions , impersonations , and in- set stories ; Gil spends some time in captivity and in prison . The recent rediscovery of Twain's 665 - page holograph manuscript of the first half of the novel provides ...
... novel includes countless deceptions , impersonations , and in- set stories ; Gil spends some time in captivity and in prison . The recent rediscovery of Twain's 665 - page holograph manuscript of the first half of the novel provides ...
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... novel , Huck reproduces the fantasy of many an 1840s dime - novel reader when he determines to light out for the western territories . By the 1880s the dime novel had evolved to include urban as well as western settings , detective ...
... novel , Huck reproduces the fantasy of many an 1840s dime - novel reader when he determines to light out for the western territories . By the 1880s the dime novel had evolved to include urban as well as western settings , detective ...
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... novel Twain presents Jim in ways which render ludi- crous the conventional wisdom about " Negro character . " As an intelli- gent , sensitive , wily , and considerate individual , Jim demonstrates that race provides no useful index of ...
... novel Twain presents Jim in ways which render ludi- crous the conventional wisdom about " Negro character . " As an intelli- gent , sensitive , wily , and considerate individual , Jim demonstrates that race provides no useful index of ...
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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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