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Please keep the Norton Annotated Series books un-combined with the rest of them - it is significantly different with new material, pictures etc.. and it needs to be separate in order to be part of the "Norton Annotated Series"  This is not the -- or "a" -- "standard" edition. Rather, it is the complete book, as Twain intended it, taken from the original final MS, half of which was missing for over a century. It is, therefore, a DIFFERENT BOOK IN TEXTUAL CONTENT. Moreover, there are numerous relevant differences between different editions of this and other Twain, not only in front and back matter, but also in contents -- some have all the original illustrations; some have only some of the original illustrations; some have no illustrations at all; some have "modern" illustrations substituted for the original -- that it is ultimately essential that different editions be distinguised -- separated -- from each other.  This is the only "comprehensive edition" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Which means: long missing and believed lost for good was the first half (over 600 pages) of Twain's final manuscript of the book. Some years ago it was found, by chance, in a trunk in an attic in California, then reunited with the other half in Buffalo. Upon reading it was found to contain materials that had been excluded by the publisher -- therefore from first edition onward the book was actually not wholly as Twain intended. Those portions are included in this edition (and in a more scholarly Mark Twain Project/Library edition), which makes it a different work than the heretofore "standard" edition/s. For that reason it is not only a different edition, but also a different book, therefore should not be combined with the existing muddle.  This is not the "standard" edition of this book. Rather, it is the complete book, as Twain intended it, taken from the original final MS, half of which was missing for over a century. It is, therefore, a DIFFERENT BOOK.  | |
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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.
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