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I cannot believe that I had never read this classic of American literature before.
Huck Finn has been living with the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, being “civilized” and schooled. Judge Thatcher doles out his allowance and he is “tolerable happy.” But when his father returns to town and kidnaps Huck, he decides he has to rely on his own wits. Huck manages to escape via canoe and sets up camp on an island in the Mississippi, where he soon discovers ...more
I cannot believe that I had never read this classic of American literature before.
Huck Finn has been living with the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, being “civilized” and schooled. Judge Thatcher doles out his allowance and he is “tolerable happy.” But when his father returns to town and kidnaps Huck, he decides he has to rely on his own wits. Huck manages to escape via canoe and sets up camp on an island in the Mississippi, where he soon discovers ...more
I first read this book when I was eleven years old. Not the full version; the Reader’s Digest Condensed Books for Young Readers version. I still have it, although I did later read the unabridged version about ten years later when I acquired a set of most of Mark Twain’s novels in my nascent library as a young bride. Now 47 years after that last reading, I decided to re-read it before diving into Percival Everett’s James, which is a reimagining of the tale as told by Jim.
I resisted a bit, becaus ...more
I resisted a bit, becaus ...more
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