The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884): Library Sources

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Full text of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available on the Web at:

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• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies [vol 4]
• Critical Companion to Mark Twain: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work
  
• The Critical Temper: A Survey of Modern Criticism on English and American Literature from the Beginnings to the Twentieth Century [vols 3, 4]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 3]
• Literature and Its Times [vol 2]
• Mark Twain: A Reference Guide
  
• The Mark Twain Encyclopedia
• Masterplots [vol 1]
• Modern American Literature [vols 1, 3, 4]
• Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vol 52] - locate the topical essay "American Humor Writing"
  • [vol 84] - locate the topical essay "Dime Novels"
  • [vol 116] - locate the topical essay "Literature of the New South"
  • [vol 120] - locate the topical essay "American Realism"
  • [vol 124] - locate the topical essay "Nineteenth-Century Social Protest Literature Outside England"
    
  • [vol 160] - locate the topical essay "The Audience and Nineteenth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 172] - locate the topical essay "Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 188] - locate the topical essay "Regionalism and Local Color in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
• Notable American Novelists [vol 3]
• Novels for Students [vol 1]
• Notable American Novelists [vol 3]
  
• Student Companion to Mark Twain
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 6, 12, 19, 36, 48, 59, 161] - check under Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 78] - locate the topical essay "Death in Literature"
  • [vol 86] - locate the topical essay "Folklore in Literature"
  • [vol 138] - locate the topical essay "Racisim in Literature"
• Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

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