This Publication of Mark Twains the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Twain, Mark

Book Id: WPLBN0000680003
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 1.14 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	This Publication of Mark Twains the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author:	Twain, Mark
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Excerpt: 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.