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Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer
and Huckleberry Finn
The Texts of His Companion Boy Books
Introduction by Dr. Alan Gribben
NewSouth Books
978-1-58838-267-2
$24.95 hardcover
5 ½ x 8 ½
450 pages
February 2011
Fiction
ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-066-0
In a radical departure from standard editions, Twain's most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that the author originally envisioned. More controversial will be the decision by the editor, noted Mark Twain scholar Alan Gribben, to eliminate the pejorative racial labels that Twain employed in his effort to write realistically about social attitudes of the 1840s. Gribben points out that dozens of other editions currently make available the inflammatory words, but their presence has gradually diminished the potential audience for two of Twain's masterpieces.
“Both novels can be enjoyed deeply and authentically without those continual encounters with the hundreds of now-indefensible racial slurs," Gribben explains.
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Download a draft of Dr. Alan Gribben's introduction that explains his method and elaborates on the publishing history of the two books and on Twain's own thoughts on them.
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