In a radical departure from standard editions, Mark Twain's most
famous novel is published here with one disturbing racial label
translated as "slave." In seeking to record accurately the speech
of uneducated boys and adults along the Mississippi River in the
1840s, Twain casually included an epithet that is diminishing the
potential audience for his masterpiece. While dozens of other
editions preserve the inflammatory slur that the author employed
for the sake of realism, the NewSouth Edition proves that the main
point of Twain's masterpiece -- the immense harm deriving from
immoral, inhumane social conformity -- comes through just as
vibrantly without obliging readers to confront hundreds of
insulting racial pejoratives. The editor's Introduction supplies
the historical and literary context for Twain's groundbreaking
book, along with a helpful guide to his satirical targets.
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