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Quotation from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
“You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.”
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #76 text)
The first sentence introduces Huck's own voice and grammar, and his offhand view of the earlier book in which he appeared.
Citation: "You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter." — Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #76 text). (id adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-q2)
Portrait: Huckleberry Finn book, E. W. Kemble, Public domain.
