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RE: The Speech Of Colonel Sherburn
Thank you for sharing this. It is a beautifully segment. I have never read any of Twain's work. It seems I have some catching up to do.
Thank you for sharing this. It is a beautifully segment. I have never read any of Twain's work. It seems I have some catching up to do.
Tom Sawyer is a good and fun kid's romp directed at adults; Huck Finn is even better, and the underlying narrative is the personal choice to seek morality...but that narrative is not pompous or demanding.
I wouldn't think of it in terms of the propaganda our media tries to infect us with, but rather in terms of Twain using a funny parable to tell a story with a moral.
[Edit: if you have the time, crypto, then read both, starting with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. That will give you a good overview of the Huck character as others see him; then you can dig into The Adventures of Huck Finn and enjoy it so much more.]
I will definitely put it on my list. It is so long I can barely keep up though!
I know the problem, and it is a self propagating story; the better things that you read send you off to read more, and if those are any good, they'll send you off to read even more!
Exactly. It is even worse because I read a lot of science books and by default they reference others so it is never ending!
In other vein, it is hilarious that Twain drew a lot of criticism for Huck Finn from two directions. The first was his attack on racism - this is the contemporary criticism that modern critics usually discuss in retrospect. HOWEVER, Twain also drew a great deal of criticism from the drawing room crowd for vulgarity and crassness.
I don't remember Twains' quote, but after some blistering reviews condemning the vulgarity in the book, Twain crowed that they had just sold a buttload more books!
He was a great guy:)