...idiom and a rhythm flawlessly adapted to the na'ive, nasal, drawling little vagabond. " You don't know me without you have read a book by the name of The...which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth." It has been remarked that Huck appears rather more conscious of the charms of external nature than...

...nasal, drawling little vagabond. " You don't know me without you have read a book by the name of Tlie Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter....which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth." It has been remarked that Huck appears rather more conscious of the charms of external nature than...

...how noble is the study of human nature which it contains. HUCKLEBERRY FINN XII HUCKLEBERRY FINN "You don't know about me without you have read a book by...Adventures of Tom Sawyer' ; but that ain't no matter," says Huckleberry Finn. He is quite right. We can understand his masterly story even if we have not...

..."He told the truth, mainly," Huckleberry Finn says of Mark Twain's portrayal of him in Tom Sawyer: "There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth." There are things which get stretched in the story of the CPR too. They do not get stretched maliciously,...

...which. The paragraph shift is a signal, and to be sure Huck opens the book with a warning — "You don't know about me without you have read a book by...the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — but Huck follows that with the disarming comment, "but that ain't no matter." The summary-exposition of...

...Huckleberry Finn (1884), for example, begins with Huck as narrator introducing himself to the reader: 'You don't know about me, without you have read a book...Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter.' The narrator of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) begins by inviting the reader to 'Call me Ishmael'...

...Huck and Jim's. Although Twain's Huck qualifies his claim that "You don't know about me, without yovi have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' " by politely saying "that ain't no matter," it does matter. Tom Sawyer makes clear Huck's position...

...that leads the reader to take Huck seriously.2 Listen to his very first words, alive and natural: You don't know about me, without you have read a book...was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, 1. All references are to Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ed. John Seelye (New York:...

...W.Williams, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* Private collection. AdvfcTjtirreS eberry Л. don't know »bout me, without you have read a book by the name of " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," bat that ain't no matter. That book waa made by Mr. Mark Twain, and be told the truth, mainly. There...

...With its opening line(s) the work asserts: You Are Here. Trust me in this, and we may proceed. "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of Tiie Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Huck explains, immediately placing us, and himself, in both the real...