Sinopsis de THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN COMPLETE (2 BOOKS)
Book One: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. He skips school to swim and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School tickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses consistently, redeeming them for a Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought "it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheaves of Scriptural wisdom on his premises—a dozen would strain his capacity, without a doubt." Book Two: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
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Editorial: Createspace
ISBN: 9781539465690
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
Fecha de lanzamiento: 11/10/2016
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Escrito por Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, más conocido como Mark Twain, nació en la villa de Florida, Misuri, en 1835. Cuando tenía cuatro años de edad, se trasladó con su familia a la localidad de Hannibal, a orillas del Misisipi. A los doce años, empezó a trabajar como aprendiz en el periódico local. Posteriormente, trabajó como impresor en varias ciudades, y se hizo piloto de un barco de vapor. Volvió luego al periodismo, y, en 1876, publicó Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer; en 1883, La vida en el Misisipi y, en 1884, Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn. Con estas tres obras alcanzaría gran fama en su época. En 1881, escribió El príncipe y el mendigo, que es su primera novela histórica. En 1889, publicó Un yanki en la corte del rey Arturo, y, en 1905, una de sus últimas obras, El forastero misterioso. Gracias a su ingenio y sus sátiras consiguió grandes éxitos como escritor y orador. Falleció en Redding, Connecticut, en 1910.