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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism

Author: Mark Twain; Sculley Bradley; Richmond Croom Beatty; E Hudson Long; Thomas Cooley
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1977.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 2d edView all editions and formats
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The American classic is accompanied by critical studies by such scholars as Van Wyck Brooks, Lionel Trilling, and T.S. Eliot.
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Genre/Form: Adventure fiction
Humorous fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Named Person: Mark Twain; Mark Twain
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark Twain; Sculley Bradley; Richmond Croom Beatty; E Hudson Long; Thomas Cooley
ISBN: 0393091465 9780393091465 0393044548 9780393044546
OCLC Number: 2985768
Description: xi, 452 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: I Discover Moses and the Bulrushers 1 --
Our Gang's Dark Oath 7 --
We Ambuscade the A-rabs 16 --
The Hair-Ball Oracle 23 --
Pap Starts In on a New Life 29 --
Pap Struggles with the Death Angel 36 --
I Fool Pap and Get Away 46 --
I Spare Miss Watson's Jim 56 --
The House of Death Floats By 72 --
What Comes of Handlin' Snakeskin 78 --
They're After Us! 84 --
"Better Let Blame' Well Alone" 95 --
Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott" 106 --
Was Solomon Wise? 114 --
Fooling Poor Old Jim 121 --
The Rattlesnake Skin Does Its Work 130 --
The Grangerfords Take Me In 143 --
Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat 156 --
The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard 174 --
What Royalty Did to Parkville 187 --
An Arkansaw Difficulty 200 --
Why the Lynching Bee Failed 214 --
The Orneriness of Kings 223 --
The King Turns Parson 232 --
All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle 241 --
I Steal the King's Plunder 252 --
Dead Peter Has His Gold 264 --
Overreaching Don't Pay 274 --
I Light Out in the Storm 288 --
The Gold Saves the Thieves 302 --
You Can't Pray a Lie 308 --
I Have a New Name 322 --
The Pitiful Ending of Royalty 331 --
We Cheer Up Jim 342 --
Dark, Deep-laid Plans 351 --
Trying to Help Jim 362 --
Jim Gets His Witch Pie 370 --
"Here a Captive Heart Busted" 380 --
Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters 390 --
A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue 398 --
"Must 'A' Been Sperits" 407 --
Why They Didn't Hang Jim 417 --
Chapter the Last: Nothing More to Write 429.
Series Title: A Norton critical edition
Responsibility: Samuel Langhorne Clemens ; edited by Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, E. Hudson Long [and] Thomas Cooley.
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The American classic is accompanied by critical studies by such scholars as Van Wyck Brooks, Lionel Trilling, and T.S. Eliot.

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Oral Tradition

by john.doe (WorldCat user published 2011-07-14) Very Good Permalink

Huckleberry Finn is an excellent example of Mark Twain's use of oral tradition in his writing. This is demonstrated in the extensive use of storytelling that occurs between Huck and Jim in their travels, as well as among the other characters in the text, such as the king and the duke. While...
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