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Life on the Mississippi (Improved)Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2011By Orin Hargraves
Last month a new edition of Mark Twain's classic novels was published: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in one volume, edited by Auburn University professor Alan Gribben. The book has attracted some press attention for the editor's decision to systematically change two words that occur in both of Twain's books.
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