The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Tven
Original, Akcija 3 za 1599
"What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"
What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents – of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.
Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. More than a century after its publication, the critical debate over the symbolic significance of this voyage is still fresh, and it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor.
- ISBN: 9788660363253
- Broj strana: 300
- Pismo: latinica
- Povez: Mek
- Format: 20x14
- Godina izdanja: 2024
Mark Tven
Mark Tven (1835-1910) američki je pisac, rođen u saveznoj državi Misuri, pod imenom Samjuel Langhorn Klemens. Detinjstvo je proveo u gradu Hanibalu na obali reke Misisipi. Nakon očeve smrti napušta školu i počinje da uči štamparski zanat, a zatim kormilarski posao kojim će se baviti sve do početka građanskog rata 1861. godine. Pseudonim Mark Tven nastao je upravo u danima kada je kao kormilar plovio Misisipijem, a ova fraza se odnosila na termin koji su brodari koristili za označavanje dubine reke bezbedne za plovidbu parobroda. U građanskom ratu je učestvovao kao dobrovoljac u konjici Konfederacije, radio je u rudniku srebra, a 1862. postaje novinski dopisnik i počinje da koristi pseudonim pod kojim će postati poznat. Pored brojnih književnih radova, Tven je ostao upamćen i kao jedan od najvećih američkih humorista. U njegova najpoznatija dela ubrajaju se: Doživljaji Toma Sojera, Doživljaji Haklberija Fina, Jenki na dvoru kralja Artura i Kraljević i prosjak. Osim po književnim delima, Tven je ostao upamćen i kao borac za ljudska prava i veliki poštovalac nauke i tehnologije. Bio je veliki prijatelj Nikole Tesle, u čijoj su laboratoriji provodili mnogo vremena. Umro je 21. aprila 1910. godine u Njujorku, tri godine nakon što je primio počasni doktorat Oksfordskog univerziteta.
