In a radical departure from standard editions, the coming-of-age
story that introduces Mark Twain's two most enduring literary
characters-Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn-is published here with
its disturbing racial labels translated as "slave" and "Indian."
Everything else is completely intact in a novel that Twain termed a
"hymn to boyhood." Tom and Huck fish and swim in the Mississippi
River, search for buried treasure, and hide in a haunted house.
Around the edges of this idyllic boy-life, however, loom dangerous
events in the fictional village of St. Petersburg: Tom and Huck
witness a midnight murder in a graveyard, the killer escapes from
the courtroom while Tom is testifying, and two sinister villains
plot robbery and revenge against a wealthy widow. Readers can
follow the boys' adventures without confronting the dozens of
racial slurs that are available in other editions of the book. The
editor supplies a historical and literary introduction as well as a
guide to Twain's satirical targets.
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