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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... King Arthur's Court was too busy looking for the Holy Grail to find time to bail ' em out . " “ But Jim ain't never done nothing like that , ” I said . " Hang it all , Huck , " said Tom . " He can always start . " " No suh ! " said Jim ...
... King Arthur's Court was too busy looking for the Holy Grail to find time to bail ' em out . " “ But Jim ain't never done nothing like that , ” I said . " Hang it all , Huck , " said Tom . " He can always start . " " No suh ! " said Jim ...
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... King sold him back into slavery . That was what all them insites added up to . I could see it plain as the nose on Pap's face . Them insites told me I should a chopped out the middle part and left the first and last , which would be ...
... King sold him back into slavery . That was what all them insites added up to . I could see it plain as the nose on Pap's face . Them insites told me I should a chopped out the middle part and left the first and last , which would be ...
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... king turns parson : 245 All full of tears and flapdoodle : 253 I steal the king's plunder : 264 Dead Peter has his gold : 274 Overreaching don't pay : 284 I light out in the storm : 296 The gold saves the thieves : 311 You can't pray a ...
... king turns parson : 245 All full of tears and flapdoodle : 253 I steal the king's plunder : 264 Dead Peter has his gold : 274 Overreaching don't pay : 284 I light out in the storm : 296 The gold saves the thieves : 311 You can't pray a ...
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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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