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Title: The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn, E. W. Kemble, E.W. Kemble ISBN: 0-393-02039-8 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful insight into an American classic
Comment: 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: Add this one to Your Library
Comment: 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....
Rating: 5
Summary: "When I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out."
Comment: 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.
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Title: The Annotated Wizard of Oz: A Centennial Edition by L. Frank Baum, Michael Patrick Hearn, W.W. Denslow ISBN: 0393049922 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 16 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, John Tenniel ISBN: 0393048470 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar ISBN: 0393051633 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 14 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson ISBN: 0618134700 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: A Guide for Using The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Classroom by Michael, M.D. Levin ISBN: 1557345643 Publisher: Teacher Created Materials Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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