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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Series:
- Courage classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Finn, Huckleberry.
- Mississippi River--Fiction.
- Mississippi River.
- Runaway children--Fiction.
- Runaway children.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Missouri--Fiction.
- Missouri.
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Adventure fiction.
- Humorous stories.
- Coming of age--Fiction.
- Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character).
- Genre:
- Adventure stories.
- Humorous stories.
- Humorous fiction.
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 238, [2] pages ; 22 cm.
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Imprint of Running Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Books, 1990.
- Contents:
- Notice and Explanatory
- Chapter 1. Civilizing Huck
- Miss Watson
- Tom Sawyer Waits
- Chapter 2. The Boys Escape Jim
- Tom Sawyer's Gang
- Deep-laid Plans
- Chapter 3. A Good Going-over
- Grace Triumphant
- "One of Tom Sawyer's Lies"
- Chapter 4. Huck and the Judge
- Superstition
- Chapter 5. Huck's Father
- The Fond Parent
- Reform
- Chapter 6. He Went for Judge Thatcher
- Huck Decides to Leave
- Political Economy
- Thrashing Around
- Chapter 7. Laying for Him
- Locked in the Cabin
- Sinking the Body
- Resting
- Chapter 8. Sleeping in the Woods
- Raising the Dead
- Exploring the Island
- Finding Jim
- Jim's Escape
- Signs
- Balum
- Chapter 9. The Cave
- The Floating House
- Chapter 10. The Find
- Old Hank Bunker
- In Disguise
- Chapter 11. Huck and the Woman
- The Search
- Prevarication
- Going to Goshen
- Chapter 12. Slow Navigation
- Borrowing Things
- Boarding the Wreck
- The Plotters
- Hunting for the Boat
- Chapter 13. Escaping from the Wreck
- The Watchman
- Sinking
- Chapter 14. A General Good Time
- The Harem
- French
- Chapter 15. Huck Loses the Raft
- In the Fog
- Huck Finds the Raft
- Trash
- Chapter 16. Expectation
- A White Lie
- Floating Currency
- Running by Cairo
- Swimming Ashore
- Chapter 17. An Evening Call
- the Farm in Arkansaw
- Interior Decorations
- Stephen Dowling Bots
- Poetical Effusions
- Chapter 18. Col. Grangerford
- Aristocracy
- Feuds
- The Testament
- Recovering the Raft
- The Wood-pile
- Pork and Cabbage
- Chapter 19. Tying up Daytimes
- An Astronomical Theory
- Running a Temperance Revival
- The Duke of Bridgewater
- The Troubles of Royalty
- Chapter 20. Huck Explains
- Laying Out a Campaign
- Working the Camp-meeting
- A Pirate at the Camp-meeting
- The Duke as a Printer
- Chapter 21. Sword Exercise
- Hamlet's Soliloquy
- They Loafed Around Town
- A Lazy Town
- Old Boggs-Dead
- Chapter 22. Sherburn
- Attending the Circus
- Intoxication in the Ring
- The Thrilling Tragedy
- Chapter 23. Sold
- Royal Comparisons
- Jim Gets Homesick
- Chapter 24. Jim in Royal Robes
- They Take a Passenger
- Getting Information
- Family Grief
- Chapter 25. Is It Them?
- Singing the "Doxologer"
- Awful Square
- Funeral Orgies
- A Bad Investment
- Chapter 26. A Pious King
- The King's Clergy
- She Asked His Pardon
- Hiding in the Room
- Huck Takes the Money.
- (Continued) Chapter 27. The Funeral
- Satisfying Curiosity
- Suspicious of Huck
- Quick Sales and Small Profits
- Chapter 28. The Trip to England
- "The Brute!"
- Mary Jane Decides to Leave
- Huck Parting with Mary Jane
- Mumps
- The Opposition Line
- Chapter 29. Contested Relationship
- The King Explains the Loss-A Question of Handwriting
- Digging up the Corpse
- Huck Escapes
- Chapter 30. The King Went for Him
- A Royal Row
- Powerful Mellow
- Chapter 31. Ominous Plans
- News from Jim
- Old Recollections
- A Sheep Story
- Valuable Information
- Chapter 32. Still and Sunday-like
- Mistaken Identity
- Up a Stump
- In a Dilemma
- Chapter 33. A Nigger Stealer
- Southern Hospitality
- A Pretty Long Blessing
- Tar and Feathers
- Chapter 34. The Hut by the Ash-hopper
- Outrageous
- Climbing the Lightning-rod
- Troubled with Witches
- Chapter 35. Escaping Properly
- Dark Schemes
- Discrimination in Stealing
- A Deep Hole
- Chapter 36. The Lightning-rod
- His Level Best
- -A Bequest to Posterity
- A High Figure
- Chapter 37. The Last Shirt
- Mooning Around
- Sailing Orders
- The Witch Pie
- Chapter 38. The Coat of Arms
- A Skilled Superintendent
- Unpleasant Glory
- A Tearful Subject
- Chapter 39. Rats
- Lively Bedfellows
- The Straw Dummy
- Chapter 40. Fishing
- The Vigilance Committee
- A Lively Run
- Jim Advises a Doctor
- Chapter 41. The Doctor
- Uncle Silas
- Sister Hotchkiss
- Aunt Sally in Trouble
- Chapter 42. Tom Sawyer Wounded
- The Doctor's Story
- Tom Confesses
- Aunt Polly Arrives
- Hand Out Them Letters
- Chapter the Last. Out of Bondage
- Paying the Captive
- Yours Truly, Huck Finn
- Essays / By Van Wyck Brooks; By Carl Van Doren.
- Notes:
- "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens under the pseudonym Mark Twain, was first published in 1884 by Chatto & Windus, London."--Title page verso.
- "The essay Mark Twain: Pathfinder by Van Wyck Brooks is an excerpt from 'The Times of Melville & Whitman' by Van Wyck Brooks, copyright © 1947, 1953 by Van Wyck Brooks, renewed 1981 by Gladys Brooks, and reprinted by permission of the publisher, E. P. Dutton, a division of New American Library."--Title page verso.
- "The essay Mark Twain by Carl Van Doren is an excerpt, reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Company, from 'The American Novel 1789-1939' by Carl Van Doren, © 1921, 1940 by Macmillan Publishing Company, renewed 1949 by Carl Van Doren; renewed 1968 by Anne Van Doren Ross, Barbara Van Doren Klaw, and Margaret Van Doren Bevans."--Title page verso.
- "Jacket illustration by Pat Perleberg. Jacket design by Toby Schmidt. Typography: Times Roman and Plantin by Folio Typographers, Inc., Pennsauken, NJ Augustea Open by Letraset."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy 1 has dustjacket with portrait of Mark Twain and different ISBN (0762405414) retained.
- Running Press copy 1 is "6" printing.
- Running Press copy 2 has jacket illustration by Pat Perleberg retained.
- Running Press copy 2 is "2" printing.
- ISBN:
- 0894718800
- 9780894718809
- 0762405414
- 9780762405411
- OCLC:
- 21562566
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