The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:1st Dec '87
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
"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
"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
ISBN: 9780252014321
Dimensions: 229mm x 140mm x 38mm
Weight: unknown
368 pages