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Outrage at an American English professor's bowdlerised version of Huckleberry Finn was inevitable. Literary classics - indeed all books - are products of their times, and the language in Twain, as in Shakespeare, Burns or any other giant o f literature, should not be altered.
That Mark Twain used the *-word 219 times in Huckleberry Finn tells the reader something. Whether that reader was from the 19th or 21st century, this usage is crucial to the story.See the full content of this document
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Don't Change a Word ... Change Attitudes
Twain was not saying it was a good word. He was demonst...
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