Notice and Explanatory

Mark Twain * Track #44 On Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain

1884

Notice and Explanatory by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain

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The “Notice and Explanatory” are Twain’s prefaces to Huck Finn. The notice establishes Twain’s comic voice and encourages readers to relish the novel rather than getting bogged down in analysis. Twain goes on to explain the varied dialects he used in case people would think the “characters were tryi...

Notice and Explanatory Annotated

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.

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