Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: an authoritative text, contexts and sources, criticism

Preface to the third edition

Note on the text and illustrations

The text of adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Contexts and sources

Letters about Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain

From the autobiography / Mark Twain

The "poet lariat," the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," and young Sam Clemens

On the death of his beloved wife / Bloodgood H. Cutter

Little Andrew / Julia A. Moore

To Jennie and to Mollie / Sam Clemens

Publishing circular, confidential terms to agents

A banned book : one hundred years of "trouble" for Huck's book

Boston transcript, March 1885

Springfield Republican, March 1885

Replies to the newspapers / Mark Twain

The case against Huck Finn / John H. Wallace

Kemble's "specialty" and the pictorial countertext of Huckleberry Finn / Earl F. Briden

The dialects in Huckleberry Finn / David Carkeet

A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it / Mark Twain

Sociable Jimmy / Mark Twain

Criticism

Early responses

Review : The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / William Ernest Henley

Review : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Brander Matthews

Mark Twain's blood-curdling humor / Robert Bridges

[First major American review] / Thomas Sergeant Perry

Modern views

From Writing Huck Finn : Mark Twain's creative process / Victor A. Doyno

Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / T.S. Eliot

Say it ain't so, Huck : second thoughts on Mark Twain's "masterpiece" / Jane Smiley

Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse / David L. Smith

Jimmy [from Was Huck black?] / Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Voices on the Mississippi [review of Was Huck black?] / James R. Kincaid

This amazing, troubling book / Toni Morrison

Mark Twain : a chronology

Selected bibliography.