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©2014
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xlvi, 345 pages : map ; 20 cm
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"First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 1884. USA by Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885"--Title page verso
Forward by Azar Nafisis -- Introduction by R. Kent Rasmussen -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chronology -- a note on the text
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic"--