“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
―from LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI (1883) by Mark Twain
On this day in 1884, ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain was first published in the U.K. The novel was published in the U.S. in February 1885.
“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
―from ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884)
―from ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884)
Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn, the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/tom-sawyer-and-huckle…/
赫克歷險記
- 作者： 馬克吐溫
- 原文作者： Mark Twain
- 譯者： 王安琪
- 繪者： 坎柏、哈雷
- 出版社：聯經出版公司
"There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth" - Mark Twain. He was born #OTD 1835, he was a pilot on the Mississippi (1857–61) and from 1862 worked as a newspaper correspondent, adopting the pseudonym ‘Mark Twain’, familiar to him as the leadsman's call on the Mississippi.
馬克．吐溫自傳
The autobiography of Mark Twain
馬克吐溫名作選
作者： 馬克吐溫
譯者： 雷一峰
出版社：志文
出版日期：1968/01/30
閱讀一本名作該是人生最快樂的事，美國幽默文學作家馬克吐溫用炖樸的心靈透視人間的罪惡，以諷刺的筆法表靈出高貴的情操。本書選譯其名作多篇，或者描繪勾心鬥角的人物其唯利是圖、不擇手段的卑劣行為，對社會人生孕育著極大的諷刺；或者描述如「頑童流浪記」中的黑人，他們的性格、說話姿態，都栩栩如生地出現在讀者眼前，他的文筆使我們想起他優越的幽默演講才能。其中「海德里巴鎮的腐化」一文，曾被許多批評家譽為是馬克吐溫最偉大的傑作。
The New York Saturday Press published Mark Twain's “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” on this day in 1865.
"It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it an't it's only just a frog."
--from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (1865)
--from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (1865)
These sixty satirical, rollicking, uproarious tales by the greatest yarn-spinner in our literary history are as fresh and vivid as ever more than a century after their author’s death. Mark Twain’s famous novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have long been hailed as major achievements, but the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the humorous short story. All the tales he wrote over the course of his lengthy career are gathered here, including such immortal classics as “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” “The Diary of Adam and Eve,” and “The $30,000 Bequest.” Twain’s inimitable wit, his nimble plotting, and his unerring insight into human nature are on full display in these wonderfully entertaining stories. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-complete-short-st…/
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
-- Mark Twain an Interview with Rudyard Kipling (1899)
The first of two hardcover volumes collecting the major nonfiction by the “father of American literature”: more than 150 letters, essays, and speeches selected to showcase the dazzling range of his interests and passions. Whether crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans or blazing through Europe and the Americas, Twain turned his trademark wit, candor, and acerbic sarcasm on all his experiences. We can trace his personal evolution through his ambition-filled missives home to Missouri after moving out West to be a fledgling reporter, his raucous stories of navigating a steamboat down the Mississippi, his romantic-turned-elegiac sentiments for his wife, Livy, and, later in life, his darker reflections on the ills of society. Often too outrageous not to be true, Twain’s real-life adventures added to his enduring legend, while his clear-eyed view of humanity has provided an unmatched blend of entertainment and moral integrity for generations of readers. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/collected-nonfiction-…/
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