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This Norton Critical Edition includes: ⁊ The first American edition (1889) of the novel, approved by Twain and published by his own company. ⁊ All 220 original illustrations, bringing to life Twain's admiration for King Arthur, Merlin, and Camelot as well as his deep interest in time travel, technology, and political satire. ⁊ Five contemporary critical assessments from American and ⁊ British sources along with seven recent essays on the novel's major themes. ⁊ A Compositional Chronology and Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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"Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known to the world by his pen-name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist, noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called ""the Great American Novel"", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876, among many others. Henry B. Wonham is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Art of the Tale and Charles W. Chesnutt, A Study of the Short Fiction and editor of Criticism and the Color Line."

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