白人少年哈克貝利聰明善良、正直無私，在被父親關在小木屋里之后偽造自殺假象，用一只木筏逃走；黑人吉姆因不堪忍受繁重的勞作，希冀逃出美國南方蓄奴區(qū)，兩個人在密西西比河上度過了一段既自由自在、又充滿歷險的生活。小說全面展示了馬克?吐溫作為現(xiàn)實主義作家和幽默大師的創(chuàng)作天才，作品成功地將生活真實與美好的浪漫理想糅合起來，將敘事與沿岸的自然景物、日常生活風貌融為一體，真切翔實、具體可感。
美國著名作家海明威曾說：全部的美國文學起源于馬克·吐溫的一本叫做《哈克貝利?費恩歷險記》的書……這是我們所有的書中最好的一《哈克貝利·費恩歷險記（英文版）》。英國著名詩人艾略特稱此書開創(chuàng)了英美文學的新風，是英語的新發(fā)現(xiàn)，并指出哈克貝利這一形象是永恒的，堪與奧德修斯、浮士德、堂吉訶德、唐璜、哈姆雷特等相媲美。
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn isnoted for its colorful description of people andplaces along the Mississippi River.By satirizinga Southern antebellum society that was alreadyanachronistic at the time,the book is an oftenscathing look at entrenched attitudes,particularly racism.The drifting journey ofHuck and his friend Jim,a runaway slave,downthe Mississippi River on their raft may be oneof the most enduring images of escape andfreedom in all of American literature.The book has been popular with youngreaders since its publication and is taken as asequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.It hasalso been the continued object of study byserious literary critics.The book was criticizedupon release because of its coarse language,and became even more controversial in thezoth century because of its perceived use ofracial stereotypes and because of its frequentuse of the racial slur,"nigger."
YOU don't know about me,without you have read a book by thename of TbeAdventures of Tom Sawyer,but that ain't no matter.Thatbook was made by Mr.Mark Twain,and he told the truth,mainlyThere 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 May Aunt PollyTom's Aunt Poll she is-and Mar and the Widow Douglas,is alltold about in that book-which is mostly a true book;with somestretchers,as I said before.Now the way that the book winds up,is this:Tom and me foundthe money that the robbers hid in the cave,andit made us rich.We got six thousand dollarsapiece——all gold.It was an awful sight of moneywhen it was piled up.Well,Judge Thatcher,hetook it and put it out at interest,and it fetchedus a dollar a day apiece,all the year roundmore than a body could tell what to do with.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens(1835-1910),better known by the pen name Mark Twain,was an American author and humorist.Twain is most noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,which has since been called the Great American Novel,and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.He is extensively quoted.During his lifetime,Twain became a friend to presidents,artists,industrialists,and European royalty.
Twain enjoyed immense public popularity.His keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers.American author William Faulkner called Twain"the father of American literature".
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XX1V
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXX1X
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
CHAPTER THE LAST
APPENDIX
As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path.aroundthe garden fence.and by and by fetched up on the steep topof the hill the other side of the house.Tom said he slippedJim's hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him.and Jim stirred a little.but he didn't wake.Afterwards Jimsaid the witches betwitched him and put him in a trance,androde him all over the State.and then set him under the treesagain and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it.Andnext time Jim told it he said they rode him down to NewOrleans;and,after that.every time he told it he spread itmore and more.till by and by he said they rode him all overthe world.and tired him most to death,and his back was allover saddle-boils.Jim was monstrous proud about it.and hegot so he wouldn't hardly notice the other niggers.Niggerswould come miles to hear Jim tell about it,and he was morelooked up to than any nigger in that country.Strange niggerswould stand with their mouths open and look him all over,same as if he was a wonder.Niggers is always talking aboutwitches in the dark by the kitchen fire.but whenever onewas talking and letting on to know all about such things,Jim would happen in and say.Hm！What you know boutwitches？And that nigger was corked up and had to take aback seat.Jim always kept that five-center piece round hisneck with a string.and said it was a charm the devil give tohim with his own hands and told him he could cure anybodywith it and fetch witches whenever he wanted to.
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