《哈克贝利费恩历险记》美国著名小说家马克吐温代表作品,《哈克贝利费恩历险记》小说以哈克和吉姆的逃离为主要情节,哈克要逃离文明社会的虚伪与腐败,获得精神上的自由;吉姆要逃离蓄奴州,奔向自由州,获得身体与精神的自由,而展开的精彩故事。同时作者对《哈克贝利费恩历险记》的语言运用上颇具特色,在广泛采用美国南方方言和黑人俚语的基础上,经过精妙地提炼加工,形成了一种富于口语化特征的文学语言、简洁生动、自然含蓄,是英语文学的范本。
本版《哈克贝利费恩历险记》为英文原版,同时提供配套英文朗读免费下载,详见图书封底博客链接。让读者在阅读精彩故事的同时,亦能提升英文阅读水平。 《哈克贝利费恩历险记》美国著名小说家马克吐温代表作品,《哈克贝利费恩历险记》小说以哈克和吉姆的逃离为主要情节,哈克要逃离文明社会的虚伪与腐败,获得精神上的自由;吉姆要逃离蓄奴州,奔向自由州,获得身体与精神的自由,而展开的精彩故事。同时作者对《哈克贝利费恩历险记》的语言运用上颇具特色,在广泛采用美国南方方言和黑人俚语的基础上,经过精妙地提炼加工,形成了一种富于口语化特征的文学语言、简洁生动、自然含蓄,是英语文学的范本。
本版《哈克贝利费恩历险记》为英文原版,同时提供配套英文朗读免费下载,详见图书封底博客链接。让读者在阅读精彩故事的同时,亦能提升英文阅读水平。
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in1884 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. 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. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry Huck Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have never lost their places as required reading in schools, and they remain templates for young adult fiction.
You dont know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that aint no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt PollyToms Aunt Polly, she isand Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book which is mostly a true bookwith some stretchers, as I said before.
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apieceall gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher, he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece, all the year roundmore than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldnt stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags, and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer, he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.
The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldnt do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldnt go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warnt really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didnt care no more about him, because I dont take no stock in dead people.
Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldnt. She said it was a mean practice and wasnt clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know nothing about it. Here she was abothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet
finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself.
Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book. She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldnt stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, Dont put your feet up there, Huckleberry; and Dont scrunch up like that, Huckleberryset up straight; and pretty soon she would say, Dont gap and stretch like that, Huckleberrywhy dont you try to behave? Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didnt mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warnt particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldnt say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldnt see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldnt try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldnt do no good.
Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didnt think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said, not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together.