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Twain, Mark Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Finn, Huckleberry History and criticism Criticism and interpretation Examinations					Characters American literature Political and social views Slavery in literature Race relations in literature African Americans in literature
Return to table of contents The following ranges of call numbers show the areas where you can browse for books in the library: 326 (Slavery & emancipation) 390 (Customs, etiquette, folklore) 398 (Folklore) 810 (American literature in English) 813 (American literature in English-Fiction) 818 (Miscellaneous writings) 970 (General history of North America) Return to table of contents About Mark Twain and Huck Finn
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	REF 031 COM	Compton’s encyclopedia & fact index [Vol. 23]
	REF 031 E	Encyclopedia Americana [Vol. 14 & Vol. 27]
	REF 031 WOR	World Book encyclopedia [Vol. 19]
	RES 803 M	Cyclopedia of literary characters
	RES 810 AME	American writers classics [Vol. I]
	RES 810.9 AME	American writers: A collection of literary biographies [Vol. IV]
	About literature and literary terms
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	RES 803 B	Literary terms: A dictionary
	RES 803 C	A dictionary of literary terms
	RES 803 QUI	A dictionary of literary and thematic terms
	About folklore
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	RES 398.042 F	Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology & legend
	About Shakespeare
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	RES 822.3 BOY	Shakespeare A to Z
	RES 822.33 C	The reader's encyclopedia of Shakespeare
	RES 822.33 M	The concise encyclopedic guide to Shakespeare
	RES 822.33 M	Who's who in Shakespeare
	RES 822.33 W	Shakespeare, an illustrated dictionary
Return to table of contents Books about Mark Twain, Huck Finn, Southern culture, slavery, and folklore have been reserved under your teacher's name. They are shelved on a cart for your use in the Media Center. See the list (click on Categories and Huckleberry Finn). Return to table of contents
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	DVD FIC HUC	Huckleberry Finn [Television broadcast]				An overview of Mark Twain's life and times and their influence on Huck Finn.
	VT 818.409 H	Huck Finn [Television broadcast]				Historians, biographers, and educators explore the firestorm the book created, its many themes, and shades of Twain’s personality – from his good-natured sarcasm to his dark, sardonic humor.
Return to table of contents Look for articles about Mark Twain or Huck Finn in these electronic databases, accessible from the NHHS Media Center home page or on the media center computers’ Favorites list. Best bets: Contemporary Authors Facts on File Bloom’s Literary Reference Online JSTOR Literature Resource Center Other databases: EBSCOhost Web-MasterFILE Premiere EBSCOhost Web-TOPICSearch EBSCOhost Web-Student Research Center Facts on File History Database Center Grolier Online Return to table of contents The following Web sites contain authoritative information about Mark Twain and Huck Finn. About.com guide to Mark Twain http://classiclit.about.com/od/twainmark/ Links to books, essays, and critical works about Twain and his books. Banned books and American culture http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/essays/banned_books9709.html Information out the controversy surrounding Huck Finn and other Twain books. The critical reception: Contemporary newspaper, magazine reviews http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/twain/twapubint.html A collection of positive and negative reviews of the book published during Twain’s lifetime. Folk beliefs in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/riedy/intro.html A discussion of folk beliefs in the novel, compiled by a graduate student in the American Studies department of the University of Virginia. The Hannibal Courier-Post http://www.hannibal.net/twain/ Mark Twain's hometown newspaper offers a retrospective on his life and work. Huck Finn still pushes buttons http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3637 A report on a discussion about the censorship of Huck Finn, with links to additional articles on banning the novel. Mark Twain in his times http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html An archive of manuscripts, reviews, and articles about Twain’s works compiled by the University of Virginia. Mark Twain http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/ More than 2,000 pages of information about Twain, including a guide to Huck Finn and links to Web resources. Compiled by American Studies scholar Jim Zwick. Mark Twain at large http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/ An exhibit of the Mark Twain papers, featuring Twain's early travels as a youth throughout the Midwest and the East including his experience as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Mark Twain: Known to everyone, liked by all http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/ An interactive scrapbook of texts, photos, illustrations, and clippings that paint a picture of Twain’s life and his writings. A mysterious manuscript http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june01/twain.html The University of Virginia’s Prof. Stephen Railton answers questions about Twain’s works, including the issue of race in Huck Finn. Return to table of contents Search engines use different Web crawlers and formulas for ranking hits. To see the broadest variety of results, get in the habit of using at least two search engines for every research question.
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