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 lar...
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.