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
... couldn't argue with that , so I didn't say nothing more about it . He made a pile of money with that book , so I guess he knowed his business , which was children . They liked it fine . But the grownups give him trouble from the start ...
... couldn't argue with that , so I didn't say nothing more about it . He made a pile of money with that book , so I guess he knowed his business , which was children . They liked it fine . But the grownups give him trouble from the start ...
Page vii
... 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 especially hard on ...
... 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 especially hard on ...
Page viii
... couldn't face up to his own story - by which he meant mine . He said that Mark Twain couldn't measure up to the nat❜ral ending his book deserved , that he just plain lost his nerve and had to cheat by tacking on a faint - hearted ...
... couldn't face up to his own story - by which he meant mine . He said that Mark Twain couldn't measure up to the nat❜ral ending his book deserved , that he just plain lost his nerve and had to cheat by tacking on a faint - hearted ...
Page x
... couldn't take out the innerscents without making the rest go bust , that it was needle and thread for the whole pair of britches . He wouldn't a had it no other way , because it was the innerscents that made the wickedness all the worse ...
... couldn't take out the innerscents without making the rest go bust , that it was needle and thread for the whole pair of britches . He wouldn't a had it no other way , because it was the innerscents that made the wickedness all the worse ...
Page xiii
... couldn't afford the trip , but Pap went , and he told me about it later . He said he knew it warn't nothing but another of Barnum's tricks . Pap said he knowed it because he asked the old lady about the cherry tree , and she said there ...
... couldn't afford the trip , but Pap went , and he told me about it later . He said he knew it warn't nothing but another of Barnum's tricks . Pap said he knowed it because he asked the old lady about the cherry tree , and she said there ...
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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