Huckleberry Finn: Part 1
By Mark Twain
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Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story filled with adventure and unforgettable characters that no one who has read it will ever forget.
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was pu
Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American humorist and writer, who is best known for his enduring novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has been called the Great American Novel.
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Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Part 1
image.jpgCONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Civilizing Huck. – Miss Watson. – Tom Sawyer Waits.
CHAPTER II.
The Boys Escape Jim. – Torn Sawyer's Gang. – Deep-laid Plans.
CHAPTER III.
A Good Going-over. – Grace Triumphant. – One of Tom Sawyers's Lies
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CHAPTER IV.
Huck and the Judge. – Superstition.
CHAPTER V.
Huck's Father. – The Fond Parent. – Reform.
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Widows
Moses and the Bulrushers
Miss Watson
Huck Stealing Away
They Tip-toed Along
Jim
Tom Sawyer's Band of Robbers
Huck Creeps into his Window
Miss Watson's Lecture
The Robbers Dispersed
Rubbing the Lamp
! ! ! !
Judge Thatcher surprised
Jim Listening
Pap
Huck and his Father
Reforming the Drunkard
Falling from Grace
image-1.jpgEXPLANATORY
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 haphazard 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.
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago
image-2.jpgCHAPTER I.
YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly – Tom's Aunt Polly, she is – and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece – all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round – more than a body could tell what to