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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... keep a saint in good supply for a year , with enough left over for a hard - shell Baptist or two . Well , that seemed to keep the other crickits satis- fied for a while , but then along came Mr Richard Poirier , and after he got through ...
... keep a saint in good supply for a year , with enough left over for a hard - shell Baptist or two . Well , that seemed to keep the other crickits satis- fied for a while , but then along came Mr Richard Poirier , and after he got through ...
Page xiv
... keep me from tellin ' lies , which I done after my fashion ever since . But there that nigger woman sat , bold as brass , smokin ' a frig- gin ' pipe and a - suckin ' on her gums like they was a snuff fact'ry , tellin ' me there warn't ...
... keep me from tellin ' lies , which I done after my fashion ever since . But there that nigger woman sat , bold as brass , smokin ' a frig- gin ' pipe and a - suckin ' on her gums like they was a snuff fact'ry , tellin ' me there warn't ...
Page xvi
... keep from joinin ' a panel discussion or a dog can keep from chasin ' a cat or a cat a mouse or a mouse from running up a curtain or a pants leg . You take a cricket that has been held back from a confrince for more'n a year , and he's ...
... keep from joinin ' a panel discussion or a dog can keep from chasin ' a cat or a cat a mouse or a mouse from running up a curtain or a pants leg . You take a cricket that has been held back from a confrince for more'n a year , and he's ...
Page xxi
... keeping that ending just to have it to kick around , and I seen where I hadn't no business trying to take it away . After all , what had them crickits done to me that I should steal their ending from them ? Be- sides , it warn't me but ...
... keeping that ending just to have it to kick around , and I seen where I hadn't no business trying to take it away . After all , what had them crickits done to me that I should steal their ending from them ? Be- sides , it warn't me but ...
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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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