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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

First Edition ©2008 Mark Twain; edited by Gregg Camfield

Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an ill...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; edited by Gregg Camfield - First Edition, 2008 from Macmillan Student Store

Enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format

Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for further reading (contexts, criticism, and Internet resources); and a concise glossary of literary terms.  This title is available in print or as a Bedford e-Book to Go.

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Table of Contents

Preface
 
Chronology: The Life of Mark Twain
 
An Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 
Suggestions for Further Reading and Research
 
Glossary of Literary Terms
 
About the Editor

Mark Twain

Mark Twain was a humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists and European royalty.

Gregg Camfield

Gregg Camfield, professor of English at the University of the Pacific, has published numerous articles and books on American literature generally and on Mark Twain in particular. Among them are Sentimental Twain: Samuel Clemens in the Maze of Moral Philosophy (U of Pennsylvania P, 1994); Necessary Madness: The Humor Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Oxford UP, 1997); and The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain (2003). He has contributed to The Oxford Historical Guide to Mark Twain, ed. Shelly Fisher Fishkin (2002) and to A Companion to American Literature, ed. Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson (Blackwell, 2005). He is currently writing an advice book for students, How to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in College. Camfield is working with the Mark Twain Project and is a member of the Board of Editors for Studies in American Humor.