Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. The book is noted for its colorful description… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1885
Word count: 110,253 words (≈ about 7 hours)
Source: Wikisource
Copyright: Public Domain
This list is based on The Great Books of the Western World, edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler.From Wikipedia:It came about as the result...
A list of books that are commonly found on reading lists for US high school English classes.
For political, religious, or moral reasons, all these books included in this list were banned in some places of the world.Reading some of these books...
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Added the foreword.
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I downloaded The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) (http://feedbooks.com/book/71) and noticed that the foreword is missing. Here is the missing text:
NOTICE
PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.
EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the… (more)
I downloaded The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) (http://feedbooks.com/book/71) and noticed that the foreword is missing. Here is the missing text:
NOTICE
PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.
EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
THE AUTHOR.
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