Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 125th Anniversary Edition - (Mark Twain Library) 125th Edition by Mark Twain (Paperback)

About the Book

This 125th anniversary edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is expanded with thoroughly updated notes and references, and a selection of original documents--letters, advertisements, playbills--some never before published, from Twain's first book tour.

Book Synopsis

This 125th Anniversary edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is expanded with updated notes and references and a selection of original documents--letters, advertisements, playbills--some never before published, from Twain's first "book tour" to promote its original publication. This is the only edition of Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. It includes all of the illustrations commissioned by Mark Twain, historical notes, a glossary, maps, and selected manuscripts.

Review Quotes

"Handsome, readable, and full of surprises . . . . the American classics that come to us from the Mark Twain Library are simply superb."-- "Los Angeles Times"

"The Mark Twain Project and the University of California Press are reuniting Samuel Clemens's texts with the essential illustrations he commissioned for them, and the results are splendid: may the Twain never again be sundered!" -- "Vanity Fair"

About the Author

Victor Fischer and Lin Salamo are both members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.