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The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnISBN 0520053389 (0-520-05338-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnISBN 0395051142 (0-395-05114-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Democracy and the NovelISBN 0195028961 (0-19-502896-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American WritersISBN 0195023978 (0-19-502397-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Letters from the EarthISBN 0060921056 (0-06-092105-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Mark Twain a Collection of Critical EssaysISBN 0139333177 (0-13-933317-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer.ISBN 0674548752 (0-674-54875-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and MythISBN 0674939557 (0-674-93955-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and Myth'Book summary:The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a Westward-moving Course of Empire, the Wild Western hero, the virtuous yeoman-farmer--in such varied nineteenth-century writings as Leaves of Grass, the great corpus of Dime Novels, and most notably, Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier in American History. Moreover, he synthesizes the imaginative expression of Western myths and symbols in literature with their role in contemporary politics, economics, and society, embodied in such forms as the idea of Manifest Destiny, the conflict in the American mind between idealizations of primitivism on the one hand and of progress and civilization on the other, the Homestead Act of 1862, and public-land policy after the Civil War.
The myths of the American West that found their expression in nineteenth-century words and deeds remain a part of every American's heritage, and Smith, with his insight into their power and significance, makes possible a critical appreciation of that heritage.
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