Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Alan Gribben

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      The title page of the first American edition of Huckleberry Finn.

      Editor’s Note: Mark Twain placed these two brief notes before the Table of Contents in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “G. G.” presumably refers to General U. S. Grant.

      NOTICE.

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      PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

      BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR

      Per G. G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.

      EXPLANATORY

      IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods South-Western dialect; the ordinary “Pike-County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guess-work; but pains-takingly, 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.

Twain’s Chapter Headings

      Chapter 1—Civilizing Huck—Miss Watson—Tom Sawyer Waits

      Chapter 2—The Boys Escape Jim—Tom Sawyer’s Gang—Deep-laid Plans

      Chapter 3—A Good Going-over—Grace Triumphant—“One of Tom Sawyers’s Lies”

      Chapter 4—Huck and the Judge—Superstition

      Chapter 5—Huck’s Father—The Fond Parent—Reform

      Chapter 6—He Went for Judge Thatcher—Huck Decides to Leave—Political Economy—Thrashing Around

      Chapter 7—Laying for Him—Locked in the Cabin—Sinking the Body—Resting

      Chapter 8—Sleeping in the Woods—Raising the Dead—Exploring the Island—Finding Jim—Jim’s Escape—Signs—Balum

      Chapter 9—The Cave—The Floating House

      Chapter 10—The Find—Old Hank Bunker—In Disguise

      Chapter 11—Huck and the Woman—The Search—Prevarication—Going to Goshen

      Chapter 12—Slow Navigation—Borrowing Things—Boarding the Wreck—The Plotters—Hunting for the Boat

      Chapter 13—Escaping from the Wreck—The Watchman—Sinking

      Chapter 14—A General Good Time—The Harem—French

      Chapter 15—Huck Loses the Raft—In the Fog—Huck Finds the Raft—Trash

      Chapter 16—Expectation—A White Lie—Floating Currency—Running by Cairo—Swimming Ashore

      Chapter 17—An Evening Call—The Farm in Arkansaw—Interior Decorations—Stephen Dowling Bots— Poetical Effusions

      Chapter 18—Col. Grangerford—Aristocracy—Feuds—The Testament—Recovering the Raft—The Woodpile—Pork and Cabbage

      Chapter 19—Tying Up Day-times—An Astronomical Theory—Running a Temperance Revival—The Duke of Bridgewater—The Troubles of Royalty

      Chapter 20—Huck Explains—Laying Out a Campaign—Working the Camp-meeting—A Pirate at the Camp-meeting—The Duke as a Printer

      Chapter 21—Sword Exercise—Hamlet’s Soliloquy—They Loafed Around Town—A Lazy Town—Old Boggs—Dead

      Chapter 22—Sherburn—Attending the Circus—Intoxication in the Ring—The Thrilling Tragedy

      Chapter 23—Sold—Royal Comparisons—Jim Gets Home-sick

      Chapter 24—Jim in Royal Robes—They Take a Passenger—Getting Information—Family Grief

      Chapter 25—Is It Them?—Singing the “Doxologer”—Awful Square—Funeral Orgies—A Bad Investment

      Chapter 26—A Pious King—The King’s Clergy—She Asked His Pardon—Hiding in the Room—Huck Takes the Money

      Chapter 27—The Funeral—Satisfying Curiosity—Suspicious of Huck—Quick Sales and Small Profits

      Chapter 28—The Trip to England—“The Brute!”—Mary Jane Decides to Leave—Huck Parting with Mary Jane—Mumps—The Opposition Line

      Chapter 29—Contested Relationship—The King Explains the Loss—A Question of Handwriting—Digging up the Corpse—Huck Escapes

      Chapter 30—The King Went for Him—A Royal Row—Powerful Mellow

      Chapter 31—Ominous Plans—News from Jim—Old Recollections—A Sheep Story—Valuable