Introduction / M. Thomas Inge
Mark Twain and his times / Arthur G. Pettit
The composition of Huckleberry Finn / Hamlin Hill and Walter Blair
Reviews / William Ernest Henley, Brander Matthews, Thomas Sergeant Perry
The art of Mark Twain / Andrew Lang
My favorite novelist and his best book / Walter Besant
Mark Twain : an inquiry / William Dean Howells
Burden of humor / H.L. Mencken
America's first truly indigenous masterpiece / V.S. Prichett
The greatness of Huckleberry Finn / Lionel Trilling
"Come back to the raft again, Huck honey" / Leslie Fiedler
Mark Twain's masterpiece / T.S. Eliot
Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn / Leo Marx
Huck and Oliver / W.H. Auden
Bad novels and great books / Joseph Wood Krutch
Remarks on the sad initiation of Huckleberry Finn / James M. Cox
Why Huckleberry Finn is a great world novel / Lauriat Lane, Jr.
The structure of Huckleberry Finn / Frank Baldanza
The unity and coherence of Huckleberry Finn / Richard P. Adams
Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin as heroes of popular culture / Glauco Cambon
Tears and flapdoodle : point of view and style in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Janet Holmgren McKay
Huck and the games of the world / Bruce Michelson
Law and nature in The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Catherine H. Zuckert
Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse / David L. Smith.