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Action and adventure films Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) Drama Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) Fiction Fugitive slaves Drama Fugitive slaves Fiction Male friendship Drama Mississippi River Fiction Missouri Fiction Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich 1890-1960 United StatesMilton, John
Summary: "This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 MILSummary: Seems like a simple enough storyline, considering it became one of the most significant, beloved, acclaimed, and studied novels ever written. This classic motion picture is the definitive adaptation of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - splendidly filmed, lovingly produced for PBS’s American Playhouse, with an acclaimed all-star cast, and presented in an unedited, full-length version....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1985
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Summary: Few works in American literature address issues as timeless as those explored in Mark Twain's controversial novel, Huckleberry Finn. In this program, three scholars, including noted Twain biographer Justin Kaplan, examine the work and its various themes-race, cruelty, consequences of greed, meaning of civilization, and the nature of freedom. The author's life is traced from his days as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Thoreau, Henry David
Contents: The texts of Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: Walden -- Civil disobedience -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Walking -- Wild apples -- Journal: The Journal and Walden -- Selections from the Journal, 1845-54 -- Reviews and posthumous assessments -- Modern criticism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.303 THOTwain, Mark
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the classic novel "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" comes the newest adaptation of this timeless tale. Tom Sawyer has nothing but pranks and mischief on his mind, but luckily his fearless friend Huck Finn loves adventure as much as he does. When the daring duo witness trouble in a graveyard, Tom and Huck are thrown head-first into adventure, putting their courage to the test!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Phase 4 Films, LLC 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ToFinn, John E.
Summary: First twelve of thirty-six lectures covering the institutional and interpretive foundations of the American constitutional order; the Bill of Rights; and the individual provisions of the Bill of Rights and the development of several other specific liberties. Thirteen to twenty four of thirty-six lectures covering the institutional and interpretive foundations of the American constitutional...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323 FIN PART 1Call number: CD 323 FIN PART 2
Call number: CD 323 FIN PART 3
Swift, Jonathan
Summary: The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; and a country ruled by horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1963
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Eager to flee from his drunken father and the confining life with Widow Douglass and Miss Watson, Huck sets off on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave, in tow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ADVContents: Huckleberry Finn / ABC Circle Films ; directed by Robert Totten ; produced by Steven North -- Adventures of Tom Sawyer / produced by David O. Selznick ; screenplay by John V.A. Weaver ; directed by Norman Taurog -- Where the red fern grows / produced by Lyman Dayton ; screenplay by Douglas C. Stewart, Elanor Lamb ; directed by Norman Tokar -- Lassie : the painted hills / written by True...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FOUWood, Elijah
Summary: Huckleberry Finn and his friend, an escaped slave named Jim, face adventure as they travel down the Mississippi River; when Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder, they try to decide whether to keep the truth a secret or reveal the identity of the killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FINSummary: This program examines and analyzes the significance of the religious documents of five major religions-the Christian Bible, the Hebrew Torah, the Islamic Koran, the Hindu Vedas, and the Buddhist sutras. Martin E. Marty and Sayyid M. Syeed discuss the similarities among the texts-how the documents keep traditions alive, connect the past to the present, and preserve their religion for future...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This musical rendering of Mark Twain's classic captures the genuine friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Strong-willed and self-raised, Huck decides to flee his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, when his cruel absentee father tries to kidnap him. Accompanying him is the sharp-witted Jim, who fears he is about to be sold. As this unlikely pair journey north to freedom, they develop a bond...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Huckleberry 2005Twain, Mark
Contents: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Pudd'nhead Wilson, a tale -- No. 44, the mysterious stranger -- Jim Smiley and his jumping frog -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- Private history of a campaign that failed -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- How to tell a story -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- To the person sitting in the darkness -- The United...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TWATwain, Mark
Summary: Huck tells of his adventures travelling down the Mississippi on a raft with an escaped slave and of the many people they encounter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Twain 1991S Lewis C Hess
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterson,Berlin,Snyder 1917
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMFinn, Peter
Summary: The dramatic, until-now-untold story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 891.73 FINTwain, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C.N. Potter 1981
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Summary: The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1995
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Summary: This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions nd has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations. New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BronteFinn, Adharanand.
Summary: Whether running is a recreation, a passion, or just a spectator sport, Finn's incredible journey to the elite training camps of Kenya will captivate. Part travelogue, part memoir, this quest uncovers the secrets of the world's greatest runners--and puts them to the test.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012