Gribben discusses the context of the racial slurs Twain used in these books. In presenting his rationale for publication, eloquently developed in the book’s introduction, Dr. Gribben observes has caused these important works of literature to fall off curriculum lists nationwide. Alan Gribben and embraced by NewSouth, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn also replaces two hurtful epithets that appear hundreds of times in the texts with less offensive words, this intended to counter the “preemptive censorship” that Dr. In a bold move compassionately advocated by Twain scholar Dr. It does more even than restore a passage from the Huckleberry Finn manuscript that first appeared in Twain’s Life on the Mississippi and was subsequently cut from the work upon publication. A new edition of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, forthcoming from NewSouth Books in mid-February, does more than unite the companion boy books in one volume, as the author had intended.
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