– Denne boka er pensum på de fleste introduksjonskurs i engelsk litteratur på universitetet, og det er lett å forstå hvorfor den er blitt en klassiker. Fortalt fra gutten Hucks synspunkt er dette humoristisk satire på sitt beste. Stort sett grei å lese (noe dialekt), en rørende historie, og et flott innblikk inn i sørstats-USA på slutten av slavetiden. Huck er ca. 13-14 år, noe naiv og godtroende, men med et stort hjerte. Boken er en slags blanding av inititation story ("innvielseshistorie") og Trickster myter - episodisk i struktur (korte kapitler), humoristisk og historien dreier rundt noen som gjennomgår en modningsprosess. De beste scenene er kanskje de som involverer Huck sine etiske og moralske dilemmaer da han hjelper slaven Jim med å rømme fra slaveriet. Anbefales. MYE tilleggstoff er inkludert, blant annet tidlig kritikk og stoff om forfatteren. Meget nyttig ved bl.a. tolkning.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
«Huckleberry Finn is one of the great American novels, brilliantly written by Mark Twain. Huck had a terrible childhood and a drunken father and when he runs away, he is truly alone in the world. The relationship between him and the escaped slave, Jim, is just marvellous»
Shirley Hughes, Sunday Telegraph
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage Children's Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 512
- ISBN
- 9780099572978
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 19 x 13 cm
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«Huckleberry Finn is one of the great American novels, brilliantly written by Mark Twain. Huck had a terrible childhood and a drunken father and when he runs away, he is truly alone in the world. The relationship between him and the escaped slave, Jim, is just marvellous»
Shirley Hughes, Sunday Telegraph
«Finn is a brilliantly imagined mixture of wilyness and innocence»
Guardian
«All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn...There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since»
Ernest Hemingway
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National Association for the Teaching of English