Thursday, December 6, 2007

Eureka!


Holy cow I found something cool!

So as I was browsing around trying to find those Classics Illustrated, I came across a website with full editions available for reading online. Just from glancing through Huck Finn, I can tell that there is clear intent to preserve the original author's style and storyline. While some chunks of text are missing, much of Huck's quotes, represented in text bubbles, are the same lines that appear in the novel itself. I'll report later on the comic's treatment of Jim, the use of the word "nigger" and the comic's adeptness at addressing the satire Twain hopes to put forward in this novel. I suspect that much of the "problems" of the novel have been glossed over or simplified. Even so, it is a much better representation of the classic text than Baronet is capable of producing in their Great Illustrated Classic series.

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