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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title:
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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by Mark Twain ; illustrated by Donald McKay.
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Publication Information:
New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1948.
Physical Description:
373 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Popular edition."--Jacket.
Abstract:
Huck tells of his adventures travelling down the Mississippi on a raft with an escaped slave, and of the many people they encounter, including a pair of swindlers and two families in a feud.
Contents:
I discover Moses and the bulrushers -- Our gang's dark oath -- We ambuscade the A-rabs -- The hair-ball oracle -- Pap starts in on a new life -- Pap struggles with the death angel -- I fool Pap and get away -- I spare Miss Watson's Jim -- The house of death floats by -- What comes of handlin' snakeskin -- They're after us! -- "Better let blame' well alone" -- Honest loot from the "Walter Scott" -- Was Solomon wise? -- Fooling poor old Jim -- The rattlesnake skin odes its work -- The Grangerfords take me in -- Why Harney rode away for his hat -- The Duke and the Dauphin come aboard -- What royalty did to Parkville -- An Arkansaw difficulty -- Why the lynching bee failed -- The orneriness of kings -- The king turns parson -- All full of tears and flapdoodle -- I steal the king's plunder -- Dead Peter has his gold -- Overreaching don't pay -- i light out in the storm -- The gold saves the thieves -- You can't pray a lie -- i have a new name -- The pitiful ending of royalty -- We cheer up Jim -- Dark, deep-laid plans -- trying to help Jim -- Jim gets his witch pie -- "Here a captive heart busted" -- Tom writes nonnamous letters -- A mixed-up and splendid rescue -- "Must 'a' been sperits" -- Why they didn't hang Jim -- Nothing more to write.
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