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‘Eve’s Diary,’ Banned Twain Book, Back at Charlton, Mass., Library

“Eve’s Diary” was pulled from the shelves of a library in 1906 after trustees objected to illustrations of a naked Eve in Eden.

 

Mark Twain Memoir Popularity Presses Deadlines For Following Volumes

Mark Twain Memoir Popularity Presses Deadlines For Following Volumes

Harriet Elinor Smith was accustomed to anonymity. As lead editor for the "Autobiography of Mark Twain" and other Twain books, she has spent decades holed up with rare documents in a UC Berkeley office, fretting over commas and obscure references to 19th century personalities.

 

Publisher Tinkers With Twain

Publisher Tinkers With Twain

A new edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is missing something. Throughout the book — 219 times in all — the word “nigger” is replaced by “slave,” a substitution that was made by NewSouth Books, a publisher based in Alabama, which plans to release the edition in February.

 

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