Publisher's Synopsis
"All modern American literature comes from one book by MarkTwain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway oncedeclared. First published in 1885, the book has delighted millionsof readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, and is still banned in many schools and libraries. Now, MichaelPatrick Hearn, author of the best-selling The Annotated Wizardof Oz, thoroughly reexamines the 116-year heritage of thatarchetypal American boy, Huck Finn, and follows his adventuresalong every bend of the mighty Mississippi River. Hearn's copiousannotations draw on primary sources including the originalmanuscript, Twain's revisions and letters, and period accounts.Reproducing the original E. W. Kemble illustrations from the firstedition, as well as countless archival photographs and drawings, some of them previously unpublished, The Annotated HuckleberryFinn is a book no family's library can do without; it may wellprove to be the classic edition of the great American nove
