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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The Ignatius Critical Editions) Paperback – April 30, 2009

by Mark Twain (Author), Joseph Pearce (Editor)

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is, according to many critics and fond readers, the great American novel. Full of vibrant American characters, intriguing regional dialects and folkways, and down-home good humor, it also hits Americans in one of their greatest and on-going sore spots: the fraught issue of racism. As Huck and Jim float down the Mississippi and encounter all manner of people and situations, and as Huck struggles mightily with his conscience concerning Jim, the novel strongly invites a moral and religious perspective. In this new edition, Mary R. Reichardt's introduction places the book in its historical and biographical context, and several critical articles examine such issues as the book's moral implications, religious contexts, and status as an American epic. Mary R. Reichardt, the editor of this edition, is a professor of literature in the Catholic Studies department at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul MN.

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Series: Ignatius Critical Ediitons
Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: Ignatius Press; Reprint edition (April 30, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781586172961
ISBN-13: 978-1586172961
ASIN: 1586172964
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 8.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3,478 customer reviews
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Budgiegirl

Yes it takes work to read this book, that's what makes it so good!

July 24, 2014

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Alot of the complaints in the reviews about this book are that "It is too slow", and "It is too difficult to read." Guess what! This is not The Hunger Games or The Twilight Series. This is actual literature from over 100 years ago. Yes it takes work to get through the dialogue. It is not exactly a page turner in that regard. But if you can be patient, and "get into the groove' of the dialect, then you will soon be able to read through the conversation with less effort. It is rewarding! Of course, I am reading this as an adult, and because I chose to do so, and not for a homework assignment. I am glad I took the time to do so, because this to me is what literature is all about. It's rewarding - not just a book you cruise through in two days, and then give it to your 10 year old who also reads it in two days. There is a lot of social commentary, as well as commentary about the inherent decency of man, and what we do to screw up our kids along the way. Critics are correct, this is not a children's book. It just happens to be about a child. Mark Twain was a masterful writer. I hope you take the time to work through this book. Also, the Dover Thrift version does not appear to be censored - as some of the other books are purported to be.

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Twain's Masterpiece!

May 1, 2017

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Enrest Hemingway declared American fiction begins and ends with Huckleberry Finn, and he's correct. Twain's most famous novel is arguably his best. There are several instances in the book that are hilarious, but when I completed the book, I also realized I had read something profound. Although Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains some very poignant critiques of slavery, discrimination, and society in general, it is also important as the story of Huck's journey from boyhood to manhood. Twain is a master at keeping the story balanced and engaging. This is definitely a book that everyone should read (again, too).

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I wonder if somewhere in the Great By and By Mr Clemons is having himself a little chuckle every time some English teacher assigns his tome to another class of befuddled students. Surely the man who created the least literate, most rebellious, and most happily ignorant character in American Lit would appreciate the irony. He might even crack wise at the serious sermonizers and pretentious pontificators lauding his deeply flawed novel as the prodigious. Of all people, Mark Twain would know a sham when he saw one. Even taken in the context of the day, this novel's glaring inadequacies and blunders are hard to miss. But then, he would also recognize the American-ness of the response, as well, the salesman's spiel, the overblown praise, the pumped up pomposity, the urgent, if insecure, need to apply superlatives. For, like his book, America has all of the same qualities, and in that regard, it is indeed The Greatest Most Perfectest American Novel Ever Written!

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Bobel

Reproduction mistakes--publisher fail.

July 23, 2015

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Huckleberry Finn is a great book--a classic. But this is a cheaply created version, that appears to merely reproduce free files easily available through public sources on the internet. There are errors that creep in as a result, including the entire text of a sign posted in the story. My daughter had to look it up in another publisher's copy of the book in order to understand what was going on. Publisher fail.

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Anita

Horrible horrible horrible.

February 10, 2018

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So disappointed by his purchase. I didn’t read the description. I only scanned and saw that it was written for 2-6 grade kids. I don’t know a kid who would enjoy this format. I will not be reading it even. The print is so tiny and the pages are so full. It’s terrible. I wish I never bought this. It it wouldn’t cost more to mail it back than to keep it, it would be gone.

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'All Anyone Would Want to Know About 'Huckleberry Finn'

February 25, 2014

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Mark Twain is generally credited with having written 'The Great American Novel' in 'Huckleberry Finn.' Assuming you have never read it and don't know much about it, I would first observe that the telling of the story is 'of its time.' Racial attitudes were firmly rooted in slavery, although 'change was in the air' and the book is set in a 'Border States' area where abolitionist and pro-slavery majorities contested in close geographic proximity. Samuel Clemens was raised in a slave-holding family and reflects on his upbringing in this work (as Mark Twain.) The 'N' word is frequently used, both with and without malice, depending on which character is speaking. Twain writes movingly about man's desire for freedom as an individual and about the desire for freedom from 'highfaluting' social constraints. As such, the escaping Huck Finn and his companion, the freedom seeking Jim, share a common goal. As an icon of American Literature, this has to rate FIVE STARS.

The appeal of the book, particularly its 'story' for the average contemporary reader will be somewhat less. We might find the humor to be a bit 'rough and rustic.' Readers in Twain's lifetime made a similar complaint. 'Coarse' things like death, murder, mutilation and the like are plainly spoken of by and/or in front of a boy who is not yet an adolescent. Some times the humor is a bit 'rough and ready.' Twain, himself, is a product of his early experiences near or on the American Frontier.

Given that this is a major work in our literary history, what does an 'annotated edition' offer? The editor, Michael Patrick Hearn is generally cited as the foremost Twain scholar of his generation. He begins by offering a major body of information about Twain's life, his work as an author and lecturer, his trials and tribulations in bringing 'Huckleberry Finn' to the public, critical reaction to the work and so on. An 'appreciation' is offered of the work and its place in American Literature. This is only fitting and proper for this type of scholarly edition. It is done to my satisfaction and the result will be more than helpful to serious students of the book. A vast range of resources has been brought to bear in the annotations, including alternate texts of passages where they can be found in Twain's copious notes and draft manuscripts. Anyone who doubts that 'writing is work' will soon be disabused if they peruse these annotations, which appear close to the relevant passages in the text. Very generous attention is given to the illustrations provided with two major editions of the work, including other illustrations from Tom Sawyer. These illustrations were offered by two artists, one picked by Twain and the second one an artist Twain came to respect the more he looked at the work.

So why 'only' four stars? Even with some interest in the book, I was almost overcome by the information added to the text of the novel. Some of the annotations seemed to be less essential than others and might have been excluded without 'harm.' Mr. Hearn has gone the extra mile to be 'comprehensive' in documenting comments on the novel and in providing explanations of vernacular words or bits of cultural background from the time.

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