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Well, I wouldn't have reread except for book club, but I'm glad I did. Laughed out loud many times during the sections where Huck and Tom are staying at the Phelps plantation. And I'm glad to have read it especially now, when new editions of the book with the word "nigger" being revised to "slave," and "injun" to "Indian," and all the literary and political and educational controversy attached to that decision. I'm talking about race frequently with my students. They now initiate conversations a
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I'm certain I read a young readers edition and in the 1960's the full text. Some day I'd like to sail the Mississippi not by raft, but on the River Queen.
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