Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition
By Alan Gribben
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In a radical departure from standard editions, Twain's most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that the author originally envisioned. More controversial will be the decision by the editor, noted Mark Twain scholar Alan Gribben, to eliminate the pejorative racial labels that Twain employed in his effort to write realistically about social attitudes of the 1840s.
Gribben points out that dozens of other editions currently make available the inflammatory words, but their presence has gradually diminished the potential audience for two of Twain's masterpieces. "Both novels can be enjoyed deeply and authentically without those continual encounters with the hundreds of now-indefensible racial slurs," Gribben explains.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5illustrations by norman rockwell are tipped in. boards arered denim
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary: This is the story of a very imaginative young boy and his best friend and their many tall tales.Personal Reaction:I remember reading this at a very young age and loving it.Classroom Extensions:1. This is a good book to read when teaching about classic books.2. I would use this as a book to read to my class as entertainment.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Audible version. Elijah Wood's reading is simply fantastic. Unfortunately, this story is not as engaging as I remember from childhood. I understand it has a Purpose, but I suspect I'd have given the book up completely before finishing, had I been reading the print version or had it been performed by anyone else.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twain created two of the most eduring American characters with these two works - Jim and Huck. Notice I didn't say Tom; when I was a kid, Tom Sawyer was the slickest kid I ever read about. But now that I'm all grown up, you realize Tom Sawyer was and always will be a grade A brat.It's in Huck though, that salvation lies. Between his adventures with Tom and then Jim we get to see Huck truly mature from a poor white trash bigot into well, a poor white trash boy with a good heart and a buried chest full of money. And Twain skewers everything and everyone in between - school marms, small towns, con men, Shakespeare, lynchings - and you realize, even in this day in age that yes, being American, and living the American dream, and having that tolerance for all the people around you is possible. Even if your Pa did seem to inspire the Temptations' "Daddy Was A Rollin' Stone"...
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5BOOORRRIIINNNGG!!!!!!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I think this is a must read for every child. I get lost in the creativity and true adventure of these boys making life interesting! Makes me wanna go play in the woods!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shamefaced about my lack of exposure to the American classics. Had to read this for book club or I probably never would have. So glad I did; hilarious, touching, and in my opinion an ingenious way of presenting the moral dilemmas of the day with regard to slavery. I kind of missed Huck when Tom Sawyer showed up, but I did laugh out loud at Tom. Wonderful.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American literature Classics ...With large messages "I about made up my mind to pray; and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of boy I was, and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart wasn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to [Jim's] owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie--and He knowed it. - You can't pray a lie."
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tom Sawyer is pure fun, but Huckleberry Finn is the real treasure. Mark Twain's grasp of the various Southern dialects is amazingly true to life, and in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he satirizes many aspects of that region in the antebellum era, such as superstitions, societal teachings, and family honor. The author underwent a complete transformation in how he viewed blacks between the time he wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and it is interesting to see how the character of Tom Sawyer changes from an innocent troublemaker to a mean-spirited, "adventure"-seeking adolescent. I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for fun in elementary school, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for my high school senior English class, and because of that, I recommend that you follow along the story on SparkNotes (or a similar guide) because it may reveal to you some insight into the time period or into Twain's satire that you would not have picked up on your own.