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Not gonna put any stars on this. I read it in preparation for reading James. because while I had read Tom Sawyer as a kid and have vivid memories of the whitewashing the fence scene, I'd never read Huck Finn and only ever heard about it as a subject of controversy and should we be teaching it.
Well. I definitely benefited from reading the introduction to this Oxford edition, although I suspect there are also better introductions out there - the historical context was helpful. But dang, it was a ...more
Well. I definitely benefited from reading the introduction to this Oxford edition, although I suspect there are also better introductions out there - the historical context was helpful. But dang, it was a ...more

This didn't capture my imagination as much as Tom Sawyer, but I did enjoy it as a kid.
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Mar 22, 2009
Paula
marked it as to-read