Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

THÔNG TIN SÁCH

Công ty phát hành: Xunhasaba

Nhà xuất bản: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Ngày xuất bản: 5 May 1992

Tác giả: Mark Twain 

Kích thước: 196 x 126 x  (mm)

Số trang: 416 trang

Loại bìa: Bìa mềm

NỘI DUNG

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury

This volume brings together two of Mark Twain’s most enduring classics, chronicling the spirited escapades and sharp insights of two boys coming of age along the Mississippi River in the mid-nineteenth century.

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, we follow the mischievous yet endearing Tom, equally at ease navigating the polite society of his Aunt Polly and the lawless adventures shared with his friend Huckleberry Finn. From witnessing a murder in a graveyard to outsmarting the villainous Injun Joe, Tom’s cleverness and courage lead to justice and buried treasure.

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain turns a sharper, more critical eye on American society. Huck, escaping an abusive father, teams up with Jim, an escaped slave, as they drift down the Mississippi. Their journey reveals the hypocrisies, cruelty, and absurdities of a society pided by race and class.

Originally framed as tales of youthful adventure, Twain’s novels grow into brilliant social satire, offering an unflinching look at the moral contradictions of a pre-Civil War America. Rich with humour, pathos, and insight, these two works together form a cornerstone of American literature, as relevant and provocative today as they were when first published.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried.

Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken and brutal father, and meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay and intellectual impoverishment. Sharing so much in background and character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume.

Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century and the institution of slavery.