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Originally Posted by Despanan
Unfortunately, Huck Finn is now public domain, which means anyone can do anything they want with the text.
A publisher could legally publish a version where Huck is a talking cat, and Jim is an old work Mule, and injun Joe is a purple space alien.
The same thing happened a while back with Darwin's "Origin of the Species". It was published and distributed by Kirk Cameron's insane church, but only after they'd added a 50 page creationist insert to the text.
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On the bright side this also means that that its available to download and distribute free on the internet without fear of repercussions, so in the end I suppose if parents want their kids to read the unaltered version, they can simply download it completely free. So in theory the parents and people who don't care about the language of the original can still read the original, and now finally people who dont like the language of the original will finally be willing to read the book, which is at least better than never reading the book. Whether or not such theory is the way things turn out, is somthing only time will tell.
Speaking of which; http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76
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