Roughing It - Mark Twain

Mark Twain in general

passenger, and the people he met on travels all proved to be as much fuel for his fervent imagination as did his childhood in Hannibal. Thus it was, that via Twain, the world got to know compulsive gambler Jim Smiley ("The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"), the rascally Tom Sawyer , Huck Finn, and even Twin and people he travelled with (The Innocents abroad or The New Pilgrim s progress). Hollywood is no doubt indebted to him as well for the original incarnation of The Prince and the Pauper, as well as a Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur s Court. While iconic, the books are far from politically correct, which has raised the ire of more than one ...

Mark Twain in general

passenger, and the people he met on travels all proved to be as much fuel for his fervent imagination as did his childhood in Hannibal. Thus it was, that via Twain, the world got to know compulsive gambler Jim Smiley ("The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"), the rascally Tom Sawyer , Huck Finn, and even Twin and people he travelled with (The Innocents abroad or The New Pilgrim s progress). Hollywood is no doubt indebted to him as well for the original incarnation of The Prince and the Pauper, as well as a Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur s Court. While iconic, the books are far from politically correct, which has raised the ire of more than one ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Quite simply, a work of real beauty. Stepping away from the jolly but trivial boys' own adventures of Tom Sawyer, this novel enters the head of the considerably more complicated Huckleberry Finn, an instinctively decent, instinctively anarchic kid, constantly being lured into normal conventional life, and constantly rebelling against it. In this novel, he ditches society and with his friend Jim, a former slave, makes a long and complex journey down the Mississippi, dodging slavers, con men, and Huck's own father. It's a superbly written evocation of the South, with elements of satire and social comment. Despite controversy over the racial elements - some say ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Quite simply, a work of real beauty. Stepping away from the jolly but trivial boys' own adventures of Tom Sawyer, this novel enters the head of the considerably more complicated Huckleberry Finn, an instinctively decent, instinctively anarchic kid, constantly being lured into normal conventional life, and constantly rebelling against it. In this novel, he ditches society and with his friend Jim, a former slave, makes a long and complex journey down the Mississippi, dodging slavers, con men, and Huck's own father. It's a superbly written evocation of the South, with elements of satire and social comment. Despite controversy over the racial elements - some say ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

If you're interested in censorship and how it's developed in the last few centuries, it's worth reading Huckleberry Finn and trying to fathom the extreme reactions to the book in various times and places. There's no doubt that many of those who denounced it were afraid of its power to suggest (as with Salinger's ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

If you're interested in censorship and how it's developed in the last few centuries, it's worth reading Huckleberry Finn and trying to fathom the extreme reactions to the book in various times and places. There's no doubt that many of those who denounced it were afraid of its power to suggest (as with Salinger's ...