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Item specifics

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Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
ISBN
9780393925357
Book Title
Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
Book Series
Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Length
8.5 in
Edition
2
Publication Year
2004
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
Mark Twain
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Topic
Legal, Literary, American / General, Historical
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Width
5 in
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393925358
ISBN-13
9780393925357
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30788431

Product Key Features

Edition
2
Book Title
Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Legal, Literary, American / General, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author
Mark Twain
Book Series
Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2004-054770
Series Volume Number
0
Edition Description
Critical
Table Of Content
The Text of Pudd'nhead WilsonThe Text of Those Extraordinary TwinsTextual Introduction and Table of VariantsPudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins: Textual IntroductionPudd'nhead Wilson: 1. Emendations of the Copy-Text: Substantives2. Emendations of the Copy-Text: Substantives (Lengthy Passages)3. Emendations of the Copy-Text: Accidentals4. Rejected Variants: Substantives5. Textual NotesThose Extraordinary Twins:1. Emendations of the Copy-Text: Substantives2. Emendations of the Copy-Text: Substantives (Lengthy Passages)3. Emendations of the Copy-Text: Accidentals4. Rejected Variants: Substantives5. Textual NotesAppendix 1: The Weather Signs Passage Deleted from Pudd'nhead WilsonREVIEWS: 1. William Livingston Alden, From The Idler (August, 1894)2. From The Athenaeum (January 19, 1895)3. From The Critic (May 11, 1895)4. T. M. Parrott, From The Booklover's Magazine (February, 1904)5. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, From CosmopolitanCRITICAL ESSAYS:1. Bernard De Voto, [Mark Twain's Presentation on Slavery]2. Leslie Fiedler, "As Free as Any Cretur...3. F. R. Leavis, Mark Twain's Neglected Classic: The Moral Astringency of Pudd'nhead Wilson4. Henry Nash Smith, [Pudd'nhead Wilson as Criticism of the Dominant Culture]5. James M. Cox, The Ironic Stranger6. Arlin Turner, Mark Twain and the South: Pudd'nhead Wilson7. George M. Spangler, Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Parable of Property8. John M. Brand, The Incipient Wilderness: A Study of Pudd'nhead Wilson9. Stanley Brodwin, Blackness and the Adamic Myth in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson10. Arthur G. Pettit, The Black and White Curse: Pudd'nhead Wilsonand Miscegenation11. Barry Wood, Narrative Action and Structural Symmetry in Pudd'nhead Wilson12. John Matson, The Text that Wrote Itself: Identifying the Automated Subject in Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins13. Andrew Jay Hoffman, Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Roots of Existential Heroism14. Linda Morris, Beneath the Veil: Clothing, Race, and Gender in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson15. Carolyn Porter, Roxana's Plot16. Myra Jehlen, The Ties that Bind17. John Carlos Rowe, Fatal Speculations: Murder, Money, and Manners in Pudd'nhead Wilson18. Susan Gillman, Sure Identifiers: Race, Science, and the Law in Pudd'nhead WilsonSelected Bibliography
Synopsis
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain's most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America., This Norton Critical Edition remains the only edition available that is based on completely re-edited texts, accounting for all versions that Twain might have written or influenced. All substantive variants in the two separate "first editions," one printed in Britain and the other in the United States, have been reconciled in this collated edition, with all rejected variants tabulated. Dozens of additional illustrations accompany the text, and all textual variants, accepted or rejected, are included. "Criticism" includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe. A Selected Bibliography is also included., This Norton Critical Edition remains the only edition available that is based on completely re-edited texts, accounting for all versions that Twain might have written or influenced. All substantive variants in the two separate first editions, one printed in Britain and the other in the United States, have been reconciled in this collated edition, with all rejected variants tabulated. Dozens of additional illustrations accompany the text, and all textual variants, accepted or rejected, are included. Criticism includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe. A Selected Bibliography is also included., "Criticism" includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
LC Classification Number
PS1317.B4 2004

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