The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Softcover

Seelye, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252014324 ISBN 13: 9780252014321

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1987

Synopsis

"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
 

About this title

Review:

"In 1970 John Seelye took the audacious step of revising Mark Twain's masterpiece... He restored the cuss words that kids and slaves would have used then, dealt with the latent homoeroticism that Leslie Fiedler noticed in the novel, altered its almost universally deplored ending, and otherwise unsmoothed its edges. The result was a racier, more adult Huck Finn... This new edition of Seelye's version includes a P.S. by Huck himself." -- Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0252014324
• ISBN 13: 9780252014321
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368