Huckleberry Finn: Text, Sources, and Criticism [Paperback]

David Levin (Editor), Kenneth Lynn (Introduction)

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ISBN-10: 0155394908 | ISBN-13: 978-0155394902 | Publication Date: January 1, 1961 | Edition: 1st

Huckleberry Finn: Text, Sources, and Criticism

Product Details

• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1st edition (January 1, 1961)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0155394908
• ISBN-13: 978-0155394902
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,131,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TS Eliot on Huckleberry Finn, January 16, 2003

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B. Edwards "bre" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Huckleberry Finn: Text, Sources, and Criticism (Paperback)

Until I read TS Eliot's critique of Huckleberry Finn, I didn't understand the book. The point that Tom Sawyer is the actor/director and Huck the audience, wallflower, altruist--is a simple fact I simply overlooked.

Eliot's reading of the book's final line makes a thoroughly entertaining read deeply melancholy. And if what Hemmingway says about Twain is true, namely, that Huck Finn appears in one way or another in every work of American Literature thereafter, it sheds light on the melancholy and loneliness that is American literature in the modern age.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To the Reader from Germany, January 2, 2004

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Samuel Leyva (McAllen, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Huckleberry Finn: Text, Sources, and Criticism (Paperback)

I'll refrain from any tasteless jokes about your comment "I'd like to burn him as well" under the present circumstances (especially under the given circumstances) but propriety still forces me to mention to you that having a personal opinion about something does not give you permission to utter any statement you wish to in order to get your point across. In other words, your dislike of something may be justified or unjustified, accurate or inaccurate, insightful or uninsightful, but whatever the case or cause or purpose of your utterance in these or any circumstances please keep your tone and manner civil. Is that clear, young man? Thank you. End of transmission.

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Huck Finn: a terror in the clss room, January 12, 2000

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This review is from: Huckleberry Finn: Text, Sources, and Criticism (Paperback)

I believe that Mark Twain, the most discpicable writer of the modern era, has made a mockery of literature. This book incorporates both poor language skills and a prejudice towards slaves and young men. I believe that this book, along with every other Mark Twain book, should be burned. if Mark Twain was still alive, I would like to burn him as well.