In this centenary year of the first American edition of Huckleberry Finn, Neider, who has worked long and well in the thickets of Twain scholarship (this is the ninth Twain volume he has edited), offers a most fitting tribute, for which he will be thanked in some quarters, damned in others. Neider's contribution is twofold: he has restored to its rightful place the great rafting chapter, which the author had lifted from the manuscript-in-progress and dropped into Life on the Mississippi, and he has abridged some of the childish larkiness in the portions in which Huck's friend Tom Sawyer intrudes into this novel. For decades, critics have lamented the absence of the "missing" chapter and deplored the jarring presence of Tom in episodes that slow the narrative, but not until now has anyone had the temerity to set matters right. In paring back the "Tom" chapters (which he fully documents in his lengthy, spirited introduction, with literal line counts of the excised material), Neider has achieved a brisker read. Though there may be some brickbats thrown at him for this "sacrilege," few should object to the belated appearance of the transplanted rafting chapter in the novel in which it clearly belongs.
【作者简介】
THOMAS COOLEY is Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Lvory Leg in the Ebony Cabint: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America; Educated lives: The Rise of Modern Autohiography in America; and The Norton Guide to
【目录】
CHAPTER I.
Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits
CHAPTER II.
The Boys Escape Jim.—Tom Sawyer's Gang.—Deep-laid Plans .
CHAPTER III.
A Good Going-oven—Grace Triumphant.—"One of Tom Saw-yer's Lies"
CHAPTER IV.
Huck and the Judge.—Superstition
CHAPTER V.
Huck's Father.—The Fond Parent.—Reform
CHAPTER VI.
He Went for Judge Thatcher.—Huck Decides to Leave.—Politi-cal Economy.—Thrashing Around
CHAPTER VII.
Laying for Him.—Locked in the Cabin.—Sinking the Body.-Resting
CHAPTER VIII.
Sleeping in the Woods.—Raising the Dead.—Exploring the Is-land.—Finding Jim.—Jim's Escape.—Signs.—"Balum"
CHAPTER IX.
The Cave.—The Floating House
CHAPTER X.
The Find.—Old Hank Bunker.—In Disguise
CHAPTER XI.
Huck and the Woman.—The Search.—Prevarication.—Going to Goshen
CHAPTER XII.
Slow Navigation.—Borrowing Things.—Boarding the Wreck.-The Plotters.—Hunting for the Boat
CHAPTER XIII.
Escaping from the Wreck.-The Watchman.—Sinking
CHAPTER XIV.
A General Good Time.—The Harem.—French
CHAPTER XV.
Huck Loses the Raft.—In the Fog.—Huck Finds the Raft.-Trash
CHAPTER XVI.
"Give Us a Rest."—The Corpse-Maker Crows.—"The Child of Calamity."They Both Weaken.—Little Davy Steps In.-After the Battle.—Ed's Adventures.—Something Queer.-AHaunted Barrel.—It Brings a Storm.—The Barrel Pursues.—Killed by Lightning.—lbright 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
CHAPTER XVII.
An Evening Call.The Farm in Arkansaw.—Interior Decora-tions.—Stephen Dowling Bots.—Poetical Effusions
CHAPTER XVIII.
Col. Grangerford.—istocracy.—Feuds.The Testament.—Re-covering the Raft.—The Wood-pile.—Pork and Cabbage
CHAPTER XIX.
Tying Up Day-times.An Astronomical Theory—Running a Tem-perance Revival.The Duke of Bridgewater.The Troubles of Royalty
CHAPTER XX.
Huck Explains.—Laying Out a Campaign. Working the Camp-meeting.—-A Pirate at the Camp-meeting.The Duke as a Printer
CHAPTER XXI.
Sword Exercise.—Hamlet's Soliloquy.They Loafed Around Town.—-A Lazy Town.—Old Boggs.—Dead
CHAPTER XXII.
Sherburn.—Attending the Circus.—Intoxication in the Ring.-The Thrilling Tragedy
CHAPTER XXIII.
"Sold!"—Royal Comparisons.—Jim Gets Homesick
CHAPTER XXIV.
Jim in Royal Robes.—They Take a Passenger.—Getting Infor-mation.—Family Grief
CHAPTER XXV.
"Is It Them?"—Singing the "Doxologer." Awful Square.—Fu-neral Orgies.—A Bad Investment
CHAPTER XXVI.
A Pious King.-The King's Clergy.—She Asked His Pardon.-Hiding in the Room.—Huck Takes the Money
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