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This Norton Critical Edition includes:
• The American first edition text, plus the reinstated “raft passage” from Life on the Mississippi (1883), complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and, for the raft passage, John Harley.
• Editorial matter by Thomas Cooley.
• A rich selection of contextual and source documents centered on the novel’s historical background, language, composition, and reception, four of them new to the Fourth Edition.
• Seventeen carefully chosen critical assessments of Mark Twain’s greatest work, ten of them new to the Fourth Edition.
• A chronology and a selected bibliography.
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
• The American first edition text, plus the reinstated “raft passage” from Life on the Mississippi (1883), complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and, for the raft passage, John Harley.
• Editorial matter by Thomas Cooley.
• A rich selection of contextual and source documents centered on the novel’s historical background, language, composition, and reception, four of them new to the Fourth Edition.
• Seventeen carefully chosen critical assessments of Mark Twain’s greatest work, ten of them new to the Fourth Edition.
• A chronology and a selected bibliography.
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