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
... 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 every- body seemed to think it was the only thing wrong with the book . He said ...
... 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 every- body seemed to think it was the only thing wrong with the book . He said ...
Page x
... poor transitors , and claptrappy episodes , and meler- dramas , and minstrel shows , and sentimentering . Mr Van O'Connor said they warn't nothing , though . He said the worse thing about the book was its inner- scents , which was ...
... poor transitors , and claptrappy episodes , and meler- dramas , and minstrel shows , and sentimentering . Mr Van O'Connor said they warn't nothing , though . He said the worse thing about the book was its inner- scents , which was ...
Page xiv
... poor wages he was offerin ' . I told him my story was worth a whole lot more and without me workin ' , nuther . I said I was a - goin ' to take my story to the newspapers , and he begged me not to . He got right down on his knees , and ...
... poor wages he was offerin ' . I told him my story was worth a whole lot more and without me workin ' , nuther . I said I was a - goin ' to take my story to the newspapers , and he begged me not to . He got right down on his knees , and ...
Page xxv
... on the raft , which even now is still a dream I'm always waking up from into what happend later , with the King and Duke , for all the world like the trick I played on poor Jim after that night we spent xxv : The hunerd - year mark.
... on the raft , which even now is still a dream I'm always waking up from into what happend later , with the King and Duke , for all the world like the trick I played on poor Jim after that night we spent xxv : The hunerd - year mark.
Page xxvi
John D. Seelye. I played on poor Jim after that night we spent in the fog . The crickits , like most everybody else , just ain't up to that middle part , which is so perfect it don't need no understanding , and prefer the last , which ...
John D. Seelye. I played on poor Jim after that night we spent in the fog . The crickits , like most everybody else , just ain't up to that middle part , which is so perfect it don't need no understanding , and prefer the last , which ...
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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