Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Censored

Mark Twain's Classic may be censored

There has been a substantial amount of controversy for the last week since it was announced that plans are underway to censor a classic work of American literature. In the latest move toward political correctness, professor Alan Gribben of Auburn announced that he would published a revision of Mark Twain’s classic ‘Huckleberry Finn’. The revision will replace the “N”-word with the word “slave” in the book.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Robert Hirst, the curator of the Twain Project, housed at the University of California, Berkeley shared his opinions on the issue.

When asked how he thought Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens, would have reacted to the news, Hirst said that Twian would have been “outraged”. According to Hirst, Twain often complained about how proofreaders made what appeared to be minor changes to his punctuation. This would be very upsetting to the author as it dramatically changes the feel of characters and dialogue in the story.