EXPLANATORY |
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 |
CHAPTER I. |
CHAPTER II. |
CHAPTER II. |
CHAPTER III. |
CHAPTER IV. |
CHAPTER V. |
CHAPTER VI. |
CHAPTER VII. |
CHAPTER VIII. |
CHAPTER IX. |
CHAPTER X. |
CHAPTER XI. |
CHAPTER XII. |
CHAPTER XIII. |
CHAPTER XIV. |
CHAPTER XV. |
CHAPTER XVI. |
CHAPTER XVII. |
CHAPTER XVIII. |
CHAPTER XIX. |
CHAPTER XX. |
CHAPTER XXI. |
CHAPTER XXII. |
CHAPTER XXIII. |
CHAPTER XXIV. |
CHAPTER XXV. |
CHAPTER XXVI. |
CHAPTER XXVII. |
CHAPTER XXVIII. |
CHAPTER XXIX. |
CHAPTER XXX. |
CHAPTER XXXI. |
CHAPTER XXXII. |
CHAPTER XXXIII. |
CHAPTER XXXIV. |
CHAPTER XXXV. |
CHAPTER XXXVI. |
CHAPTER XXXVII. |
CHAPTER XXXVIII. |
CHAPTER XXXIX. |
CHAPTER XL. |
CHAPTER XLI. |
CHAPTER XLII. |