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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... mind how it was hung together . And he said you 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 ...
... mind how it was hung together . And he said you 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 ...
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... mind would bother to read any such a damn thing any- how . But you got to listen . It ain't polite not to . And if that warn't just like a sermon in a church , I don't know what is . Anyway , whilst one crickit was a - reading away xvii ...
... mind would bother to read any such a damn thing any- how . But you got to listen . It ain't polite not to . And if that warn't just like a sermon in a church , I don't know what is . Anyway , whilst one crickit was a - reading away xvii ...
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... mind write , and a - getting up there and a - calling Pap Finn racist trash , him who had shook hands with Governor George Wallace back when it meant some- thing . No sir , he wouldn't a stood for it , but Pap warn't there , and it was ...
... mind write , and a - getting up there and a - calling Pap Finn racist trash , him who had shook hands with Governor George Wallace back when it meant some- thing . No sir , he wouldn't a stood for it , but Pap warn't there , and it was ...
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... mind the harem business , it would be all over with him . But Jim allowed he would make it up to the people who wanted that bad word out of the book . Him and me would write a letter explaining that he warn't really a nigger , but only ...
... mind the harem business , it would be all over with him . But Jim allowed he would make it up to the people who wanted that bad word out of the book . Him and me would write a letter explaining that he warn't really a nigger , but only ...
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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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