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 ix
... leave me and Jim no better off than we ever was , but still more or less trying to get clear . He claimed this ending was more moral than Mark Twain's , and it certainly would a been disappointing . Well , Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling was ...
... leave me and Jim no better off than we ever was , but still more or less trying to get clear . He claimed this ending was more moral than Mark Twain's , and it certainly would a been disappointing . Well , Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling was ...
Page xii
... leaving in all the cuss words and the sex and the sadness . Everything went just dandy till I got to the end . I nailed her down easy enough , but then it ... leave the other one alone . P.S. The hunerd - year mark W ell , I xii Introduction.
... leaving in all the cuss words and the sex and the sadness . Everything went just dandy till I got to the end . I nailed her down easy enough , but then it ... leave the other one alone . P.S. The hunerd - year mark W ell , I xii Introduction.
Page xx
... leaving . I took down some notes to pass along , just the same , so you can see what I mean about the crickits going right on , pretending I never told things the way they wanted . Take Mr James Cox , who still reckons the old ending is ...
... leaving . I took down some notes to pass along , just the same , so you can see what I mean about the crickits going right on , pretending I never told things the way they wanted . Take Mr James Cox , who still reckons the old ending is ...
Page xxv
... leaving what was above and below . You'd get a man like a bullfrog , being all mouth and legs , but the book would be mostly Tom Sawyer anyhow , who fits the bill . That way I could leave out the bad word , too , on account of Jim would ...
... leaving what was above and below . You'd get a man like a bullfrog , being all mouth and legs , but the book would be mostly Tom Sawyer anyhow , who fits the bill . That way I could leave out the bad word , too , on account of Jim would ...
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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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