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The winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical of the Year, Outstanding Original Score, and Outstanding Book of a Musical, as well as seven Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Lyrics, William Hauptman's Big River brings an American treasure to life with color and nobility. With lyrics by Grammy Award winner Roger Miller, Big River captures the spirit of Mark Twain's classic tale of Huckleberry Finn, America's favorite non-conformist...

In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out...

Short critical responses and full-length essays discuss the image of Huck from the time of Twain to the present day.

The story of Huckleberry Finn and his travels with his best fried Tom Sawyer and Jim, an escaped slave.

This volume reprints the Iowa-California text of Twain's classic novel about the son of the town drunk who joins an escaped slave in a bid for freedom down the Mississippi River. Includes annotations, documents, information about the author, and critical excerpts.

"Michael Patrick Hearn, author of the national bestseller The Annotated Wizard of Oz, has done equal justice to this great American novel. A Twain literary sleuth and an authority on children's literature, he considers all the literary, social, historical, and autobiographical aspects of Twain's classic tale of Huck and Jim's trip down the mighty Mississippi. In lively and fascinating annotations, Hearn's notes draw on everything from letters, manuscripts,...

Contains the complete text of "Huckleberry Finn" and eighteen essays that address three major controversies that surround the novel, including sexual orientation, Mark Twain's ending, and racism.

"Refiguring "Huckleberry Finn" looks at ways contemporary American culture and history influenced the formation of Mark Twain's masterwork. It also shows how the novel reflects Twain's deep investment in what Carl F. Wieck calls "an open-minded, unbiased perception of the wellsprings of the American spirit."" "In addition, in discussions that range from number play in the novel to the symbolic potential of the Mississippi's awesome, one-way flow,...

In this debut by a major new voice in fiction, the author takes readers on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain's classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own. Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless...

Putting Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in historical context, connecting it to pivotal issues like slavery, class, money, and American economic expansion, this book engages readers by presenting American history through the lens of a great novel. Dighe presents Twain's book as a historical novel that brings up key historical issues both in the antebellum period in which the novel is set and in the post-Reconstruction period in which it...