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
... give him trouble from the start . When the book first come out the liberrians didn't like it because it was trashy , and they hadn't but just got used to it being trash when somebody found out INTRODUCTION Introduction: "De ole true huck"
... give him trouble from the start . When the book first come out the liberrians didn't like it because it was trashy , and they hadn't but just got used to it being trash when somebody found out INTRODUCTION Introduction: "De ole true huck"
Page vii
... give him a chill . It warn't that Mr DeVoto didn't like Mark Twain , because he did . He even called him " Mark " most of the time . But he could see where he had his faults . and he didn't hang back none in telling about them . Like ...
... give him a chill . It warn't that Mr DeVoto didn't like Mark Twain , because he did . He even called him " Mark " most of the time . But he could see where he had his faults . and he didn't hang back none in telling about them . Like ...
Page viii
... 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 which he meant mine . He said that Mark Twain couldn't measure up to the ...
... 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 which he meant mine . He said that Mark Twain couldn't measure up to the ...
Page ix
... give all those other crickits a sad kind of smile , like he felt sorry for them poor ingoramuses , and then he let rip with a damn stunner . He didn't mess around with the ending . He said he was only interested in that ending because ...
... give all those other crickits a sad kind of smile , like he felt sorry for them poor ingoramuses , and then he let rip with a damn stunner . He didn't mess around with the ending . He said he was only interested in that ending because ...
Page x
... give it a try . He said the important thing was the way Mark Twain told my story , that's what saved it and made it great , never mind how it was hung together . And he said you couldn't take out the innerscents without making the rest ...
... give it a try . He said the important thing was the way Mark Twain told my story , that's what saved it and made it great , never mind how it was hung together . And he said you couldn't take out the innerscents without making the rest ...
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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