The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

Résumé :

Mark Twain's masterpiece begins with Huck Finn's crafty escape from his brutal father, and then follows him down the Mississippi together with a runaway slave, Jim. In their exploits on Jackson's Island, on the great river, among the feuding families of Kentucky, and with two confidence tricksters, the Duke and the King, Twain gives us not only a supreme picaresque adventure story but also an unmatched portrait of life in an American society still marked by the crudeness, vitality, cruelty and wit of the frontiersman era. Told by the inimitably robust Huck, the tale is rich in frank observation, eloquent vernacular, and oblique moral comment - and Huckleberry Finn himself, as T.S. Eliot once wrote, is one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet and other discoveries which man has made about himself.

A propos de l'auteur :

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835 and adopted the name Mark Twain for newspaper work in the early 1860s after working as a printer and a Mississippi pilot for several years. Short stories made his name, and his fame spread with The Innocents Abroad (1869), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), among numerous other publications. By the time of his death in 1910 he had long been a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic.

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