柯林斯经典文学：汤姆索亚历险记 Collins Classics: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

基本信息

Series:Collins Classics

Format:Paperback / softback 288 pages

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint:William Collins

ISBN:9780007420117

Published:1 Jan 2011

Weight:160g

Dimensions:179 x 112 x 20 (mm)

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书籍简介

汤姆幼年丧母，由姨妈收养。聪明顽皮的汤姆受不了姨妈和学校老师的管束，常常逃学闯祸。一天深夜，他与好朋友哈克贝里·芬到墓地玩耍，无意中目睹了一起凶杀案的发生。因为害怕被凶手发现他们知道这件事，汤姆、哈克贝里带着另一个小伙伴一起逃到一座荒岛上做起了 “海盗” ，弄得家里以为他们被淹死了，结果他们却出现在了自己的“葬礼”上。经过激烈的思想斗争，汤姆终于勇敢地站出来，指证了凶手。不久之后，在一次野餐活动中，他与他心爱的姑娘贝姬在一个岩洞里迷了路，整整三天三夜饥寒交迫，面临着死亡的威胁……

'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.'

An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.

Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to tell a soul about what they have seen and so begins their journey into adulthood as Tom wrestles with his own morality, guilt and anxiety.

A 'coming of age' tale, it is through Tom's adventures and relationships with others that he becomes more responsible and more aware of his own inner conflict. Through the central characters of Tom and Huck, Twain satirises the moral rigidity of society and adult hypocrisy, whilst at the same time giving a nostalgic portrayal of a young boy's journey into adulthood.

作者简介

马克·吐温（Mark Twain,1835－1910），原名萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门 （Samuel Langhorne Clemens)是美国的幽默大师、小说家、作家，也是知名演说家，19世纪后期美国现实主义文学的杰出代表。威廉·福克纳称马克·吐温为“一位真正的美国作家，我们都是继承他而来”。

“马克·吐温”是其常使用的笔名，一般认为这个笔名是源自早年水手术语，马克·吐温的意思是“水深12英尺”。萨缪尔曾当过领航员，与伙伴测量水深时，他的伙伴叫道“Mark Twain !”，这是轮船安全航行的必要条件。

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 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. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and 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'.