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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... comes Mr Leo Marx , and give both . Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling hell . ' Cording to him , that ending warn't moral ... come out , which he done . He said the book ought to end so as to make something out of our escape down the Mississippi ...
... comes Mr Leo Marx , and give both . Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling hell . ' Cording to him , that ending warn't moral ... come out , which he done . He said the book ought to end so as to make something out of our escape down the Mississippi ...
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... come from all the damn hard work I done setting the record straight and then nobody paying it any notice . Here I went and sweated out a power of words by hand , a whole book's worth , which is beginning to look like a bend in the river ...
... come from all the damn hard work I done setting the record straight and then nobody paying it any notice . Here I went and sweated out a power of words by hand , a whole book's worth , which is beginning to look like a bend in the river ...
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... comes of handlin ' snake - skin : 75 They're after us ! : 80 " Better let damn well alone " : 92 Honest loot from the " Walter Scott " : 102 Fooling poor old Jim : 110 The child of calamity : 122 The rattlesnake - skin does its work ...
... comes of handlin ' snake - skin : 75 They're after us ! : 80 " Better let damn well alone " : 92 Honest loot from the " Walter Scott " : 102 Fooling poor old Jim : 110 The child of calamity : 122 The rattlesnake - skin does its work ...
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John D. Seelye. Why Harney rode away for his hat : 165 What comes of fetching a Bible : 179 The duke and the dauphin come aboard : 188 What royalty did to Pokeville : 201 An Arkansaw difficulty : 218 The Burning Shame : 237 The king ...
John D. Seelye. Why Harney rode away for his hat : 165 What comes of fetching a Bible : 179 The duke and the dauphin come aboard : 188 What royalty did to Pokeville : 201 An Arkansaw difficulty : 218 The Burning Shame : 237 The king ...
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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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