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 vi
... river town , and he thought it was even worse that he had got married and went to Hartford , Connecticut , where he got mixed up with the quality , mostly preachers and such . He said if it warn't for Chris- tianity , women , and ...
... river town , and he thought it was even worse that he had got married and went to Hartford , Connecticut , where he got mixed up with the quality , mostly preachers and such . He said if it warn't for Chris- tianity , women , and ...
Page viii
... Mississippi . He knowed that Jim couldn't ever a found his freedom down river in no moral way , so that was out , and whatever other ending you chose would just disappoint everybody . But he said that was the viii : Introduction.
... Mississippi . He knowed that Jim couldn't ever a found his freedom down river in no moral way , so that was out , and whatever other ending you chose would just disappoint everybody . But he said that was the viii : Introduction.
Page ix
... river , because the free and easy life on the raft was a lie . He said what was wrong with the ending was Tom Sawyer , because Tom's style was all wrong . That made Tom biling mad , but before he had a chance to say any- thing about Mr ...
... river , because the free and easy life on the raft was a lie . He said what was wrong with the ending was Tom Sawyer , because Tom's style was all wrong . That made Tom biling mad , but before he had a chance to say any- thing about Mr ...
Page xv
... river that has gone out of business and turned into just another oxbow . Come the hunerd year mark , every- body begun to make a fuss over Mr Twain's book and paid no heed at all to mine . It was mortifying . Why , some idjit set the ...
... river that has gone out of business and turned into just another oxbow . Come the hunerd year mark , every- body begun to make a fuss over Mr Twain's book and paid no heed at all to mine . It was mortifying . Why , some idjit set the ...
Page xxv
... river and thought it all over . It was plain to me I done wrong , not by leaving that bad word in the book for anybody to change that wanted to , but by dropping off Mr Mark Twain's ending when I should a cut out the middle part ...
... river and thought it all over . It was plain to me I done wrong , not by leaving that bad word in the book for anybody to change that wanted to , but by dropping off Mr Mark Twain's ending when I should a cut out the middle part ...
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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