英语名著: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1. 英语名著: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Novel: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author: Mark Twain
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre(s): Children's Novel
Media: type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages: 275pp
Followed by Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South, in the town of "St Peter*****urg", inspired by the town of Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, where Mark Twain grew up. In the story's introduction, Twain notes:

Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.

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2. 英语名著: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



Author: Mark Twain
Country: United States
Language: English
Publication date 1884
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 366
Preceded by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Followed by Tom Sawyer Abroad


Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often referred to as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or shortened to Huckleberry Finn or simply Huck Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in December 1884. Commonly recognized as one of the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels.

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that was already out of date by the time the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.

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