Mark Twain passes the ultimate writer's test – staying in print
It takes either extreme stupidity, or great skill, for a writer to insist that his book isn't published for a century after his death. With Mark Twain – whose autobiography has just been published, to...
View ArticleHuckleberry Finn loses the 'nigger' he loves, thanks to a publisher's ethnic...
There is a great fuss in America about a new edition of Huckleberry Finn from which the word nigger has been excised. It occurs in the novel 217 times, or 219 (tallies vary, and I have lost count), so...
View ArticleMark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and Nigger Jim: sense or censorship?
When I read Christopher Howse's lovely piece on the Bowdlerisation of Huckleberry Finn ("Huckleberry Finn loses the 'nigger' he loves, thanks to a publisher's ethnic cleansing") I was appalled....
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