So far, the consensus of the crowd seems to be that it's not a good idea. News of the new edition of Huck Finn has sparked quite a bit of comment on Twitter, where "Huckleberry Finn" is a trending topic as this moment. It's a matter of how you express that in the 21st century." (The edited Huck Finn will be included in a volume with Tom Sawyer.) First American Edition, New York 1885, Published by Charles L. Cover of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', by Samuel Clemens. Kimble, shows a young boy who stands in front of. He explains that at the end of that book, he and his friend Tom Sawyer discovered a robber’s cache of gold and consequently became rich, but that now Huck lives with a good but mechanical. One of the scholars, Alan Gribben of Auburn University, tells PW that "this is not an effort to render Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn colorblind. Cover of the book 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ' by Mark Twain, 1884. Huckleberry Finn introduces himself as a character from the book prequel to his own, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Cover of the book 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)' by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 1884.Īs PW says, "for decades, has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation's most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word."
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