Mark Twain 
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 125th Anniversary Edition 
The only authoritative text based on the complete, original manuscript

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 title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2010.

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

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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

Sobre el autor

Victor Fischer and Lin Salamo are both members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.