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.
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
Table des matières
ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
MARK TWAIN ON TOUR
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Notice
Explanatory
1. Civilizing Huck.-Miss Watson.-Tom Sawyer Waits
2. The Boys Escape Jim.- Tom Sawyer’s Gang.-Deep-laid Plans
3. A Good Going-over.-Grace Triumphant.-‘One of Tom Sawyer’s Lies’
4. Huck and the Judge.-Superstition
5. Huck’s Father.-The Fond Parent.-Reform
6. He Went for Judge Thatcher.-Huck Decides to Leave.-Political Economy.-Thrashing Around
7. Laying for Him.-Locked in the Cabin.-Sinking the Body.-Resting
8. Sleeping in the Woods.-Raising the Dead.-Exploring the Island.-Finding J im.-J im’s Escape.-Signs.-‘Balum’
9. The Cave.-The Floating House
10. The Find.-Old Hank Bunker.-In Disguise
11. Huck and the Woman.-The Search.-Prevarication.-Going to Goshen
12. Slow Navigation.-Borrowing Things.-Boarding the Wreck.- The Plotters.-Hunting for the Boat
13. Escaping from the Wreck.-The Watchman.-Sinking
14. A General Good Time.- The Harem.-French
15. Huck Loses the Raft.-ln the Fog.-Huck Finds the Raft.-Trash
16. ‘Give Us a Rest.’-The Corpse-Maker Crows.-‘The Child of Calamity.’-They Both Weaken.-Little Davy
Steps ln.-After the Battle.-Ed’s Adventures.-Something Queer.-A Haunted Barre L-It Brings a Storm.-
The Barrel Pursues.-Killed by Lightning.-Allbright Atones.-Ed Gets Mad.-Snake or Boy ?-‘Snake Him
Out.’-Some Lively Lying.-Off and Overboard.-Expectations.-A White Lie.-Floating Currency.-Running
by Cairo.-Swimming Ashore
17. An Evening Call.-The Farm in Arkansaw.-lnterior Decorations.-Stephen Dowling Bots.-Poetical Effusions
18. Col. Grangerford.-Aristocracy.-Feuds.-The Testament.- Recovering the Raft.-The Wood-pile.-Pork and Cabbage
19. Tying Up Daytimes.-An Astronomical Theory.-Running a Temperance Revival.-The Duke of Bridgewater.-The Troubles of Royalty
20. Huck Explains.-Laying Out a Campaign.-Working the Camp-meeting.-A Pirate at the Camp-meeting.-The Duke as a Printer
21. Sword Exercise.-Hamlet’s Soliloquy.-They Loafed Around Town.-A Lazy Town.-Old Boggs.-Dead
22. Sherbum.-Attending the Circus.-lntoxication in the Ring.-The Thrilling Tragedy
23. ‘Sold! ‘-Royal Comparisons.-)im Gets Homesick
24. Jim in Royal Robes.-They Take a Passenger.-Getting lnformation.-Family Grief
25. ‘Is It Them?’-Singing the ‘Doxolojer.’-Awful Square.-Funeral Orgies.-A Bad Investment
26. A Pious King.-The King’s Clergy.-She Asked His Pardon.- Hiding in the Room.-Huck Takes the Money
27. The Funera L-Satisfying Curiosity.-Suspicious of Huck.-Quick Sales and Small Profits
28. The Trip to England.-‘The Brute!’-Mary Jane Decides to Leave.-Huck Parting with Mary Jane.-Mumps.-The Opposition Line
29. Contested Relationship.-The King Explains the Loss.A Question of Handwriting.-Digging up the Corpse.-Huck Escapes
30. The King Went for Him.-A Royal Row.-Powerful Mellow
31. Ominous Plans.-News of J im.-Old Recollections.-A Sheep Story.-Valuable Information
32. Still and Sunday-like.-Mistaken ldentity.-Up a Stump.-ln a Dilemma
33. A Nigger Stealer.-Southem Hospitality.-A Pretty Long Blessing.-Tar and Feathers
34. The Hut by the Ash-hopper.-Outrageous.-Climbing the Lightning Rod.-Troubled with Witches
35. Escaping Properly.-Dark Schemes.-Discrimination in Stealing.-A Deep Hole
36. The Lightning Rod.-His Level Best.-A Bequest to Posterity.- A High Figure
37. The Lost Shirt.-Mooning Around.-Sailing Orders.- The Witch Pie
38. The Coat of Arms.-A Skilled Superintendent.-Unpleasant Glory.-A Tearful Subject
39. Rats.-Lively Bed-fellows.-The Straw Dummy
40. Fishing.-The Vigilance Committee.-A Lively Run.-Jim Advises a Doctor
41. The Doctor.-Uncle Silas.-Sister Hotchkiss.-Aunt Sally in Trouble
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
MAPS
EXPLANATORY NOTES
GLOSSARY
THREE PASSAGES FROM THE MANUSCRIPT
MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILES
REFERENCES
NOTE ON THE TEXT
A propos de l’auteur
Victor Fischer and Lin Salamo are both members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
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