The True Adventures of Huckleberry FinnUniversity of Illinois Press, 1987 - 339 pages "Seelye's version seems even funnier than the original, and also more moving, since Seelye's Huck Finn is even less sentimental about life and Tom Sawyer than Twain's Huck Finn. He is also more perceptive about black people than the original." -- Hughes Rudd, CBS News "Seelye has stitched together a whale of a book. Without reference to Twain's own version, it is almost impossible to see the seams where 1970 joins 1884." -- Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek |
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Page vii
... anyway - but he couldn't help pointing out where Mark Twain went wrong . He could see all the little lies and the short cuts and the foolishness that was in it , and he wrote considerable about them in two books of his own . He was ...
... anyway - but he couldn't help pointing out where Mark Twain went wrong . He could see all the little lies and the short cuts and the foolishness that was in it , and he wrote considerable about them in two books of his own . He was ...
Page viii
... anyway , so nobody took him up on it . Then along comes Mr Leo Marx , and give both . Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling hell . ' Cording to him , that ending warn't moral , and it was all because Mark Twain couldn't face up to his own story - by ...
... anyway , so nobody took him up on it . Then along comes Mr Leo Marx , and give both . Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling hell . ' Cording to him , that ending warn't moral , and it was all because Mark Twain couldn't face up to his own story - by ...
Page xii
... anyways , only this time I told the story like it really happened , leaving in all the cuss words and the sex and the sadness . Everything went just dandy till I got to the end . I nailed her down easy enough , but then it hit me that ...
... anyways , only this time I told the story like it really happened , leaving in all the cuss words and the sex and the sadness . Everything went just dandy till I got to the end . I nailed her down easy enough , but then it hit me that ...
Page xvii
... such a damn thing any- how . But you got to listen . It ain't polite not to . And if that warn't just like a sermon in a church , I don't know what is . Anyway , whilst one crickit was a - reading away xvii The hunerd - year mark.
... such a damn thing any- how . But you got to listen . It ain't polite not to . And if that warn't just like a sermon in a church , I don't know what is . Anyway , whilst one crickit was a - reading away xvii The hunerd - year mark.
Page xviii
John D. Seelye. Anyway , whilst one crickit was a - reading away , there would be this line of other crickits sitting up there on the platform a - waiting their turn to read what they had brung along , and you could see they warn't much ...
John D. Seelye. Anyway , whilst one crickit was a - reading away , there would be this line of other crickits sitting up there on the platform a - waiting their turn to read what they had brung along , and you could see they warn't much ...
Contents
I discover Moses and the bulrushers | 1 |
Nitiation night and the morning after | 7 |
The hairball oracle | 16 |
Pap starts in on a new life | 26 |
Pap struggles with the death angel | 32 |
I fool pap and get away | 42 |
I spare Miss Watsons Jim | 51 |
The house of death floats by | 67 |
What comes of fetching a Bible | 177 |
The duke and the dauphin come aboard | 186 |
What royalty did to Pokeville | 199 |
An Arkansaw difficulty | 216 |
The Burning Shame | 235 |
The king turns parson | 243 |
All full of tears and flapdoodle | 251 |
I steal the kings plunder | 262 |
What comes of handlin snakeskin | 73 |
Theyre after us | 78 |
Better let damn well alone | 90 |
Honest loot from the Walter Scott | 100 |
Fooling poor old Jim | 108 |
The child of calamity | 120 |
The rattlesnakeskin does its work | 139 |
The Grangerfords take me in | 152 |
Why Harney rode away for his hat | 163 |
Dead Peter has his gold | 272 |
Overreaching dont pay | 282 |
I light out in the storm | 294 |
The gold saves the thieves | 309 |
You cant pray a lie | 314 |
What happened at the saw mill | 324 |
Nothing more to write | 335 |
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