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 vii
... things about Mark Twain , he kinder liked my book . He said it was the only honest thing Mark Twain ever wrote . But Mr DeVoto come down pretty damn hard on it . It warn't that he didn't enjoy it , because he did - some parts of it ...
... things about Mark Twain , he kinder liked my book . He said it was the only honest thing Mark Twain ever wrote . But Mr DeVoto come down pretty damn hard on it . It warn't that he didn't enjoy it , because he did - some parts of it ...
Page ix
... thing . He explained all about death and reborning and nitiation , and how it was fit that Jim and I should a come back from the river , because the free and easy life on the raft was a lie . He said what was wrong with the ending was ...
... thing . He explained all about death and reborning and nitiation , and how it was fit that Jim and I should a come back from the river , because the free and easy life on the raft was a lie . He said what was wrong with the ending was ...
Page x
... thing a crickit can't stand , it's stillness , and after a time they begun to creep around in the wreck , seeing if there warn't anything worth salvage . Mr Henry Nash Smith , f'rinstance , give it a try . He said the important thing ...
... thing a crickit can't stand , it's stillness , and after a time they begun to creep around in the wreck , seeing if there warn't anything worth salvage . Mr Henry Nash Smith , f'rinstance , give it a try . He said the important thing ...
Page xi
... thing you could do for the book was scrape it up and bury it . People still read Huckleberry Finn , but the ones that see what Mr O'Connor and Mr Poirier done to it say it just ain't the same afterwards . They can't forget the sight of ...
... thing you could do for the book was scrape it up and bury it . People still read Huckleberry Finn , but the ones that see what Mr O'Connor and Mr Poirier done to it say it just ain't the same afterwards . They can't forget the sight of ...
Page xii
... thing . Most of the parts was good ones , and I could use them . But Mark Twain's book is for children and such , whilst this one here is for crickits . And now that they've got their book , maybe they'll leave the other one alone ...
... thing . Most of the parts was good ones , and I could use them . But Mark Twain's book is for children and such , whilst this one here is for crickits . And now that they've got their book , maybe they'll leave the other one alone ...
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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