E. W. Kemble
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Language
English
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"To escape from his violent and drunken father, a 13-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Huckleberry Finn, fakes his own death and floats away on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave.In a series of unforgettable adventures narrated by Huck, they encounter a cross-section of characters from slave-hunters, and con men to feuding aristocrats.This was the first major American novel to be written in the vernacular, a dark and...
Author
Publisher
Negro Universities Press
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “Folks from Dixie” by Paul Laurence Dunbar is the first book of short fiction by one of American literature's earliest great black authors. More than anything else, this 1898 book is about race consciousness, as Dunbar examines black and white roles. On the surface, it is a series of stories about contented, loyal blacks and peaceful race relations, however within...
