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 v
... asked him . He told me it was a book for chil- dren , and some of the things I done and said warn't fit for boys and girls my age to read about . Well , I couldn't argue with that , so I didn't say nothing more about it . He made a pile ...
... asked him . He told me it was a book for chil- dren , and some of the things I done and said warn't fit for boys and girls my age to read about . Well , I couldn't argue with that , so I didn't say nothing more about it . He made a pile ...
Page vi
... Brooks straight on that score . He showed where Hannibal warn't at fault at all , nor religion , nor women , nor even Hart- ford . He said that Mark Twain asked to have all them rough words cut out , and that it was his vi : Introduction.
... Brooks straight on that score . He showed where Hannibal warn't at fault at all , nor religion , nor women , nor even Hart- ford . He said that Mark Twain asked to have all them rough words cut out , and that it was his vi : Introduction.
Page xiii
... asked the old lady about the cherry tree , and she said there warn't nothing to it . " Well , by Jesus , ” Pap said , “ I seen right then and there she warn't nothin ' but a goddamn fake . Why , everybody knows about little Jawrge and ...
... asked the old lady about the cherry tree , and she said there warn't nothing to it . " Well , by Jesus , ” Pap said , “ I seen right then and there she warn't nothin ' but a goddamn fake . Why , everybody knows about little Jawrge and ...
Page xix
... asked . " The insite , I mean . " " You are a dummy , Huck , " said Tom . " You can't see an insite , no more'n you can see a hiccup . They just come on you , blammedy - blam ! Believe me , when you've got an insite , you know it . " I ...
... asked . " The insite , I mean . " " You are a dummy , Huck , " said Tom . " You can't see an insite , no more'n you can see a hiccup . They just come on you , blammedy - blam ! Believe me , when you've got an insite , you know it . " I ...
Page xxx
... take no stock in dead people . Pretty soon I wanted to smoke , and asked the widow to let me . But she wouldn't . She said it was a The true adventures of Huckleberry Finn I I discover Moses 4 : The true adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
... take no stock in dead people . Pretty soon I wanted to smoke , and asked the widow to let me . But she wouldn't . She said it was a The true adventures of Huckleberry Finn I I discover Moses 4 : The true adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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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