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Mark Twain books' new editions get racial wipe
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Mark Twain wrote that the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. A new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer will try to find out if that holds true by replacing a word considered a
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Schools won't switch to new 'Huck Finn'
Montgomery :: AL :: USA | over 2 years ago
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The seminal novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" isn't on the reading lists at a majority of North Jersey schools, but a new edition that omits a highly offensive racial slur isn't likely to be added to those curriculums, either, a survey of school
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Huck Finn goes clean in new publication
San Luis Obispo :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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January 2011 A revised edition of the classic American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, intended to be less offensive and cleaner for the classroom, is set to be published next month. This sanitized version will exchange every
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Sanitizing literature is a long, untidy tradition
Venice :: Italy | over 2 years ago
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It hasn't protected the novel from being cleaned up, updated and "improved." A new effort to sanitize "Huckleberry Finn" comes from Alan Gribben, a professor of English at Auburn University, at Montgomery, Ala., who has produced a new edition of
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N-word evil in Twain's era, evil now
Toowoomba :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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Story continues below A new edition of Mark Twain's 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the tale of a white boy and a black man who forge an unlikely friendship founded on trust and respect, is published this month. Even curmudgeonly
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GUEST COLUMN: 'Huckleberry' has a new adventure
South Lake Tahoe :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Respected Mark Twain scholar Dr. Alan Gribben, chair of the English Department at Auburn University, has cleaved the Twain World in twain...In substituting slave for the debilitating word that appears four times in Tom Sawyer and 219 times in Huck
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DJ Taylor: Artfully, those pesky motorists dodge the bullet once more
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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Asked to select the coalition government's least prepossessing ornament, you have a feeling that the average punter would probably waver between the transport supremo Philip Hammond, and Eric Pickles, the jovial and ebullient Communities Secretary.
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Huckleberry Finn To Be Revised and Censored: Good or Bad?
Huckleberry Finn—an upcoming edition of Mark Twain’s classic novel by NewSouth Books will replace all instances of the “n” word present in the text with the word slave, according to Publishers Weekly. The effort
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New edition removes Mark Twain's 'offensive' words
Montgomery :: AL :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Ala. (AP) Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." A new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and " Tom Sawyer " will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the
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Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn's New Edition Edits Out The 200 N-Word. Smart Move on Publishers Part Or Politically Correct Diluted Art?
January 5, 2011]-----The renowned author Mark Twain's highly controversial novel, "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn," is being re-published by Auburn University professor Alan Gribben, along with NewSouth Books. However the new
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