Actually, the Concord, MA Library's banning of HF on the grounds of "bad grammar" was due mainly to its elitist stand on southern dialects. Twain was experimenting with an American twang that the Concord forefathers simply did not approve of. It had nothing to do with the inclusion of the word "nigger." They merely took the Puritanical view that they did not wish _their_ children to read a book filled with a "backwards" southern drawl that rarely filtered into their elite circles. I doubt (and certainly hope not) that there is a "PC" version of HF; IMHO, that would destroy Twain's own internal debate on American consciousness and some of the best passages in American literature. In most cases, I believe, when the novel's "appropriateness" has been questioned, it is removed entirely from the school system. Ironically, the Mark Twain Middle School itself in Md. (?) banned the book. Beth