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
... warn't trashy enough , and then when the liberrians got in a sweat about the word " nigger , " the crickits come out and said there warn't anything wrong with that word , that it was just the sort of word a stupid , no - account , white ...
... warn't trashy enough , and then when the liberrians got in a sweat about the word " nigger , " the crickits come out and said there warn't anything wrong with that word , that it was just the sort of word a stupid , no - account , white ...
Page vii
... warn't that he didn't enjoy it , because he did - some parts of it , anyway - but he couldn't help pointing out where Mark Twain went wrong . He could see all the little lies and the short cuts and the foolishness that was in it , and ...
... warn't that he didn't enjoy it , because he did - some parts of it , anyway - but he couldn't help pointing out where Mark Twain went wrong . He could see all the little lies and the short cuts and the foolishness that was in it , and ...
Page viii
... warn't no ending worse than that ending , and that Mark Twain ought to be shot for writing it , but he had died anyway , so nobody took him up on it . Then along comes Mr Leo Marx , and give both . Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling hell ...
... warn't no ending worse than that ending , and that Mark Twain ought to be shot for writing it , but he had died anyway , so nobody took him up on it . Then along comes Mr Leo Marx , and give both . Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling hell ...
Page ix
... warn't as good as Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling claimed it was , but nuther was it as bad as Mr Marx had let on . He said it warn't perfect , but it was explainable , and that was the important thing . He explained all about death and ...
... warn't as good as Mr Eliot and Mr Trilling claimed it was , but nuther was it as bad as Mr Marx had let on . He said it warn't perfect , but it was explainable , and that was the important thing . He explained all about death and ...
Page x
... warn't nothing , though . He said the worse thing about the book was its inner- scents , which was wickeder than the sloppy work by far . He said if you took out the innerscents , you'd have something , by which he meant the book's skin ...
... warn't nothing , though . He said the worse thing about the book was its inner- scents , which was wickeder than the sloppy work by far . He said if you took out the innerscents , you'd have something , by which he meant the book's skin ...
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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