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Works of Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn: Chapters 1 - 9

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Twain, Mark

Twain, Mark
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Huckleberry Finn: Chapters 1 - 9

Chapter 1: I Meet Moses And The Bulrushers

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn opens with the hero of the story (Huck
Finn) introducing himself as one of the characters who figured in another book
by Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer. Huck tells us that "Mr. Mark Twain" was more or
less truthful in telling the story of Tom Sawyer. On occasion Twain "dressed
up" the story, but by and large he told it accurately. After all, Huck says,
everybody lies once in a while-except maybe Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly, or the
Widow Douglas (the woman who took ...

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