Name: The Writings of Mark Twain
Rating: 3.628571428571429 (630 reviews)

Mark Twain

Publius Vergilius Maro

Charles Anthon

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New York (State). Banking Dept

Emerson Willard Keyes

Claire Giannini Hoffman

The Writings of Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

charming slice of life into a boys childhood. read as context for huck finn/james read through.

Sarah H

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors.

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn—liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their exciting flight down the Mississippi aboard a raft, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. As Ernest Hemingway said of this glorious novel, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
--back cover

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Dimitris Papastergiou

It was ok. 

A little bit specific-era written, a little bit racist, a little bit awkward, a little bit meh, and a little bit, I'd rather read something that doesn't have to do with a whole story that has ONE bad guy and the bad guy is the ONLY indian in the whole fucking book.

Other than things like that happening in it that grinds my gears, it was an ok story about kids getting into trouble.

The classic adventure story of boyhood escapades on the shores of the Mississippi chronicles the exploits of the mischievous Tom Sawyer and his friends. Reissue.

Let me start by saying this, I love the 1800s, I'm a sucker for old west, I grew up reading historical books, watching movies/shows from that era and I even love country music since I was a kid. So it's not about the theme.

You could say, the simplistic writing is making it dull to read but, that's not it, even more so that makes me angry that KIDS have to read this "classic". 

Overall, it's an ok story that has to do with a kid that doesn't wanna go to school and wants to cause trouble or just gets in trouble and whatnot.

Now let's go to my problems, I GET that it's a specific era, and a specific time and all of that, I GET THAT, I know what it was like, and I've read more than just Frederick Douglas' autobiography to know what it was like to be a slave back then, and/or a minority, of course there were slaves in Twain's books, and of course he would make people call them names and make them do things, and even though some things that happen in the book are just plain dumb, and make me angry as to depict black people as dumb as fuck, I can accept this only because their masters didn't let them read or educate themselves as to believe when a fucking teenage boy tells a grown ass man for example "you're bewitched and listening to voices, run go spit on a green snake to take the curse off you" or some shit. And the man runs scared. Yeah. No. Fuck. That.

That shit tells me 2 things. You're either racist as fuck and you simply don't give a shit and you're part of the problem, so you write racist shit, or you simply grew up in a time where slavery was legal and I'm supposed to accept that, and say that your writings are fucking masterpieces because hey, black men back then were stupid and didn't know any better because they were forcefully brought in the country to just work get raped and get killed. 

So, am I to accept that that was the way of life back then and judge it just as a book? 

Or am I going to judge the way Twain writes too?

I'm going to do both, as I said as a story was ok. Even a little bit boring and of course simple, given the times. But as a writer Mark Twain, so far for as many books of his I've read, he was a fucking racist, and no excuses that it was made to be "funny" and whatnot, as I was wondering with what I was reading and I was like this is a classic? Really? And went and searched articles and whatnot, thankfully finding out what I was already thinking, but also authors and others defending it as a comedy angle or some shit. But no, at the end of the day, it's clear that he was a racist, as much as Aristotles was sexist.

And to top it all of, a whole book, that has ONE fucking bad guy, and THAT guy is the ONLY indian guy in the whole book. Really Mark? Really now?! Talk about propaganda in them 1880s.

Dunno how and why this shit was made classic in America, I would never give this to my kid to read as classic. I guess it was the times. 

*Sigh*

Presents the adventures of a mischievous young boy named Tom and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Akash A

Felt like I had aphantasia while reading this. Visual imagery is close to nil in this one. Disappointed.

Jeannette Ordas

This was one of my husband's favorite books growing up and so we decided to read this together before bed. It's a classic story, it was a fun read, what more can I say?

Burcu Şakır

Robin Hood’culuk, korsancılık, define avı, sirkcilik, perili evler ve içinde kaybolunan mağaralar....Tüm çocukluğunuz, çocukken hayalini kurduğunuz herşey bu kitapta. Hala hepimizin içinde biraz Huckberry Finn yok mu acaba?

Natalie Sypeck 

Another book for my children’s literature class. Boyhood adventure stories still aren’t my jam.

Emma Tickner

3.5

This book had parts that were darker then I expected from a book made for young people. But I still liked it and found it enjoyable.

Wren Hardwick

Mark Twain is probably one of the most well-known authors out there. He is famous for his characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and their wild imaginations. 

In the first book, it starts out with Sawyer being punished by white-washin’ a really high fence. Now, Sawyer is probably one of the smartest kids you will ever hear about because he already knows the secret to men: they want what is hard to get. He makes the boys of the neighborhood believe that this isn't a chore or a punishment, but something Sawyer really enjoys. Only he can do it right. So naturally, the boys all want to do it and trade things for a chance!

Things that are traded include, but are not limited to: orange peels, one-eyed cat, six firecrackers, a piece of red chalk and a piece of blue bottle glass. For a young boy, that is like finding a buried treasure!

Speaking of buried treasure…

Sawyer and Finn are on a hunt to find buried treasure this summer, and come across more danger than they anticipated. Murder? Death to three boys? Death to a doctor? A damsel in distress? Pirates? Outlaws? Murderers? 

This book is a fun-loving books for the adventure at heart. It is easy to read and is good for a young reader. Twain captures the thoughts and dramatic thoughts of a young boy and girl and will keep you laughing till the end of the book.

Sonia Flores

Hallé mucha inocencia en las cualidades de Tom Sawyer y sus amigos. En sus temores, supersticiones, travesuras e incluso en sus momentos introspectivos. Creo que me gustó mucho ese matiz entre la manera de narrar de Twain, tal vez nada infantil, su humor y lo movido de las aventuras de este chico y de quienes le acompañaban. Lo disfruté al máximo porque exploraba no solo los actos de un niño sino sus motivaciones y sus maneras de ver las cosas.
En las escenas más divertidas (entre las que destaca, por supuesto, la de la valla) vislumbramos a un muchacho a veces egoísta pero muy listo y creativo, y pese a que en la vida real no me habría agradado uno de esa naturaleza, en esta lectura me entretuvo y me gustó bastante.

Siempre lamento no haber podido leer estos libros más temprano, pero me alegra haberlo hecho ahora, es un clásico del que sin duda no me arrepiento y que me dio algo muy diferente a lo que esperaba. Le tomé mucho cariño.

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