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1) Hardcover Book The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by W. W. Norton & Company. No repeats of the due praise by previous reviewers. If you have never read Huck Finn before, do not start here, the annotations would make it difficult to read with a curious eye to the margin notes breaking up the flow, like watching a DVD movie with the director comments turned on. But do come back when your done a non-annotated version (or even audio); travel down the river again with the annotations by your side, here as lengthy as the book over again, a whole new magical worlds awaits in the margins; you will discover the hidden depths and meanings of one of the most important literary works about America ever written. An amazing book lovingly produced.¤ 2) Hardcover Book The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by W. W. Norton & Company. Mark Twain opined that a classic is a book everyone wants to own but nobody reads!
However if you want to read Twain´s best book with a full
critical apparatus, an introduction over 100 pages and excellent
illustrations this is the volume for you!
Anyone teaching Huckleberry Finn in high school or college should make use of Michael Patrick Hearn´s well researched notes
which make this volume required reading.
I have read all of the Norton Annotated Classics and found this one (along with the Sherlock Holmes volume) the best.
Huckleberry Finn deals with the tragedy of 19th century slavery as Finn helps the black slave Jim escape down the mighty Mississippi river. In Huck´s odyssey down the river he also travels from boyhood to manhood.
Twain´s use of dialects is amazing as is his dissection of prebellum southern/southwest society rife with violence, bigotry, child abuse and cruelty.
Norton is to be commended for their series of classics opening up new ground for all students of Mark Twain. Excellent!
¤ 3) Hardcover Book The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by W. W. Norton & Company. I purchased this book for my son, a high school student who was assigned HUCKLEBERRY FINN in an American Studies class, and promptly fell in love with it. The commentary is delightful, and the many illustrations (many taken from the original edition,) photographs, prints, cartoons, and maps give a real sense of time and place. Homey details that might not be familiar to the modern reader are explained in some detail, as are customs of the time. The author includes material from Twain´s notes and details about his life, always in a manner that illuminates the passage. HUCKLEBERRY FINN frequently turns up on lists of banned books, and it´s interesting to read of the controversy that dogged this story from the beginning. The particulars of readers´ outraged sensibilities might change, but the response this book has always engendered suggests the timelessness of Twain´s targets: ignorance, cruelty, hypocracy, racism. The story is a clear-eyed yet subversive look at a society in transition, and a relentless skewering of treasured myths concerning childhood. These themes remain as troubling today as they were in the 1840s, the supposed setting of the novel. This book is an excellent resource for students and teachers, as well as for those of us who love Mark Twain´s stories. The book itself is beautiful, with high quality paper and binding. A worthy addition to every library!¤ 4) Hardcover Book The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by W. W. Norton & Company. Mark Twain at his best...great pictures and annotation...that are first rate. Due to time restraints, I have only skimmed the book. What I have read is great. It is a Norton book...always-great editions. If weight means anything, then this is a heavy-duty book. I look forward to reading the entire book after graduation in the spring. In addition, it even looks good on the shelf....¤ 5) Hardcover Book The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by W. W. Norton & Company. The greatest American novel, still. The country it sees is still in front of our eyes. The Americans it shows, we still are, though we live nearer to highways now than rivers. Twain´s tale can be read both intellectually (yuck) as symbolic of the American quest for masterlessness (see Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence) and as a kid-on-a-raft-let´s-see-what-happens story. Art and fun. Not an easy achievement to tie those two rascals together with one rope. Master of structure and flinger of fun though he be, the most exciting reason to read Twain is the language. The book is a hundred and sixteen years old, the writing ain´t --"Steamboat captains is always rich, and get sixty dollars a month, and they don´t care a cent what a thing costs, you know, long as they want it. Stick a candle in your pocket; I can´t rest, Jim, till we give her a rummaging. Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing? Not for pie, he wouldn´t. He´d call it an adventure-that´s what he´d call it; and he´d land on that wreck if it was his last act. And wouldn´t he throw style into it?" --One caveat: Be careful the illustrations don´t mess up the pictures the author can put in your head with his sentences.¤ 6) Hardcover Book The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by W. W. Norton & Company. A sumptuous new edition of the great American novel. "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway once declared. First published in 1885, the book has delighted millions of readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, and is still banned in many schools and libraries. Now, Michael Patrick Hearn, author of the best-selling The Annotated Wizard of Oz, thoroughly reexamines the 116-year heritage of that archetypal American boy, Huck Finn, and follows his adventures along every bend of the mighty Mississippi River. Hearn´s copious annotations draw on primary sources including the original manuscript, Twain´s revisions and letters, and period accounts. Reproducing the original E. W. Kemble illustrations from the first edition, as well as countless archival photographs and drawings, some of them previously unpublished, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn is a book no family´s library can do without; it may well prove to be the classic edition of the great American novel. 274 illustrations, two-color throughout.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 23-Nov-2008, 03930203989780393020397, 980-700-220-870-330-100-341-8 
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