Well, I must say Siva's defence of the Oxford Huck Finn is a through one. In my original posting, I did mention that you should get the book if you wanted the essays, and I must confess that I made the posting before I had time to take a good long look at the Oxford Huck Finn, while I've been reading the Random House edition for a while, relishing in the pictures. I'm pretty sure the Oxford edition is on acid free paper, while I don't think the Random house one is, so that too may be a consideration. As for purchasing the whole set, I got it for about $204 and some change (This price included postage) from the Strand book store. There was a discussion about this a few weeks back, and if the books are $15 to $25 each anyway..... Of course $200 is a lot of money, and buying the set means I'll have to live on salads for the rest of the semester, but I think it was well worth the sacrifice. Reading Twain material he never read before, Matthew Miller