Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Norton Critical Edition

Mark Twain

W.W. Norton & Company

1998

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780393966404

This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition reprints for the first time the definitive Iowa-California text of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and John Harley. The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations.

"Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark Twain's greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the author's autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print.

"Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni Morrison's moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark Twain's masterpiece.

“A Chronology and Selected Bibliography” are also included.

Resenhas (28)

4 (Muito bom)

"you don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sayer, but that ain't no matter"

O que eu mais gostei:
1) É interessante como ele coloca Huck, uma criança tentando lidar com dilemas um pouco adultos na vida, no decorrer das aventuras ao lado de Jim, um escravo fugitivo. Um desses dilemas é o medo de roubarem Jim, que ele considera como um amigo, e se deve protegê-lo ou não. O que diriam as autoridades na época sobre defender um escravo e "conceder" sua liberdade sem o consentimento de seu legítimo dono?

2) Os diálogos dele com o Jim sobre Maria Antonieta e Luís XVI são muito bons.

3) E a dificuldade para ele orar, as palavras não vinham, pois não se ora uma mentira, rs.

4) O dialeto (que eu quebrei a cabeça) é o mais difícil do livro, a grafia é bastante diferente um Old English do final do século XIX. Mas é bom para se aprofundar.