The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Wisehouse Classics) -

Mark Twain

Wisehouse Classics

2015

236 páginas

7h 52m

ISBN-10: B089M1FFWB

Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.
Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly in Huck's unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "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 didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people." Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and injustice that makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message.

Resenhas (28)

4 (Muito bom)

"you don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sayer, but that ain't no matter"

O que eu mais gostei:
1) É interessante como ele coloca Huck, uma criança tentando lidar com dilemas um pouco adultos na vida, no decorrer das aventuras ao lado de Jim, um escravo fugitivo. Um desses dilemas é o medo de roubarem Jim, que ele considera como um amigo, e se deve protegê-lo ou não. O que diriam as autoridades na época sobre defender um escravo e "conceder" sua liberdade sem o consentimento de seu legítimo dono?

2) Os diálogos dele com o Jim sobre Maria Antonieta e Luís XVI são muito bons.

3) E a dificuldade para ele orar, as palavras não vinham, pois não se ora uma mentira, rs.

4) O dialeto (que eu quebrei a cabeça) é o mais difícil do livro, a grafia é bastante diferente um Old English do final do século XIX. Mas é bom para se aprofundar.