The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
“Notice”
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1884
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Twain, M. (1884) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Charles L. Webster And Company.
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 10.2
- Word Count: 155
- Genre: Adventure
- Keywords: 19th century literature, american literature, mark twain, samuel clemens, southern authors
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NOTICE
PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR,
Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.
EXPLANATORY
IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
THE AUTHOR.
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Scene: The Mississippi Valley
Time: Forty to fifty years ago