One of the greatest, funniest, most poignant stories in American Literature and you think it's stale? Talk to my 10 year old about it. He'll set you straight. He's read it five or six times in the past few years....
I think its a great idea. Adds some interest to an otherwise stale story
The Closeup Foundation is for high school students. I was once in a high school play in which a black student portrayed an Irishman in rural Ireland. He was excellent. The copyright holder (of this derivative play) should lighten up.
One of the greatest, funniest, most poignant stories in American Literature and you think it's stale?
I read it to my son and one thing I noticed about Twain's writing made me feel that this is not a perfect literary work. There were places in the story that are less well crafted, where he seems to be just filling up space with irrelevant material. It is as if he rushed though these parts just to fill some sort of daily quota of words and never came back to polish them.