Ergebnis für "I, Huckleberry" in Literatur & Belletristik

New York native Huckleberry Jones doesn't know why his parents packed him off to a camp for "exceptional teenagers" at Oxford University, England, though meeting the beautiful, glamorous Kat might just make it worthwhile. Together with Mei and Tshombe, friends from four continents, they discover...

Ernest Hemingway said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". One hundred years after its author’s death, this classic remains remarkably modern and poignantly relevant. In this new edition, Elijah Wood reads Huck in a youthful voice that may be the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent. His performance captures the excitement and confusion of adolescence and adventure.

Das Leben ist leicht - solange man auf einer Flussinsel liegt, Fische grillt, Pfeife raucht und sich Geschichten erzählt. Aber lange können Huckleberry Finn und der geflohene Sklave Jim ihre Freiheit nicht genießen, denn allerhand Abenteuer warten auf die beiden. So müssen sie z. B. den zwei Hochstaplern "Herzog" und "König" das betrügerische Handwerk legen, Tom Sawyer in den Griff kriegen - der mal wieder vor verrückten Ideen übersprudelt - und Tante Sally und Onkel Silas in Sicherheit wiegen.

First published in 1884, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the first novels in American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English. Some have called it the first Great American Novel, and the book has become required reading in many schools throughout the United States. The story is set along the Mississippi River in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Arkansas around 1840. It depicts the development of Huckleberry (Huck) Finn, a boy about thirteen years old.

Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing "there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft".

Huckleberry Finn knüpft dort an, wo Tom Sawyer aufhört:Huck, nach dem Abenteuer mit Tom zu Geld gekommen, wohnt bei der Witwe Douglas, die versucht ihn zu "zivilisieren". Von dort wird er von seinem Vater entführt, dem er durch die Vortäuschung seiner eigenen Ermordung entkommt.Ab diesem Zeitpunkt beginnen seine Abenteuer auf dem Mississippi, zusammen mit dem entlaufenen Sklaven Jim...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the comic masterpiece of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who trained as a river-boat pilot (from which experience he took his pen-name, Mark Twain). His most famous book describes a boy's journey down the Mississippi aboard a raft with the runaway black slave Jim.