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  • Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway said: ‘All modern American literature comesfrom one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It’s the best book we’vehad. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There hasbeen nothing as good since.’ And T.S. Eliot proposed that the character ofHuckleberry Finn is ‘one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction notunworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet andother discoveries which man has made about himself.’ Huckleberry Finn isindeed, the archetypal American novel, which everyone has heard of, thoughprobably not read. Mark Twain started to write The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn as ‘a kind of companion’ to his children’s book, Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer isan account of a romantic thirteen year old that lives happily with his AuntPolly in St. Petersburg. Tom loves pranks and he likes to make adventureshappen, and happen in style. Mark Twain started to write Huckleberry Finn alongthese lines, as a sequel to Tom Sawyer. It was to be another boyhood romance.However, even in the first few chapters the seeds are sown for what was tobecome a much deeper novel, one which many people interpret as an expression ofthe American state of mind at the time (1876). This does not preclude the factthat the novel is a rattling good adventure story, loved by children. However,it has an extra dimension and is a book, which can be read on many levels. Itis an adventure story, a moralistic story and a story about freedom andintegrity, not only of the individual but also of the American people as awhole. It is a timeless book and in the same way that the great Englishclassic, The Wind in the Willows is read firstly by children then revisited byadults, so is Huckleberry Finn. The essential story is simple enough. A boy of aboutthirteen or fourteen decides to run away from the cruelties of a drunken fatherand ‘civilizing’ pressures of respectable St. Petersburg society. At the momentof escape, he falls in with Jim, Miss Watson’s runaway slave. Together theymake their way down the Mississippi on a raft brought down on the ‘June rise’,traveling over a thousand miles to the Phelps’ plantation in Arkansas, wherethe novel has its ending. Gradually we realize that the Mississippi riverrepresents freedom and the uncorrupted world. It is the world of truth; betweeneach of Huck and Jim’s adventures, time is suspended. Lying on the raft,cooking fish, gazing up at the stars, life is simple and straightforward forthem. However, Huck learns about his conscience. Should he or should he notgive Jim up to the authorities? Hiding Jim is illegal, he knows that, but Jimis his friend and the fact that he is black makes no difference to Huck. Healready knows from experience how wrong it would be to treat Jim as a gulliblesecond-class citizen. He learns through many an incident that he has feelingsjust as sensitive as his own. At the end of the novel Huck is back in civilization withhis old friend Tom Sawyer. But Huck has learned a lot. Even before he ran off,he was getting bored with Tom’s ‘Sunday school’ adventures. Now he is at thePhelps’ plantation and knows that Tom’s extraordinary efforts to set Jim freethe hard way, so that it looks good, is unnecessary. However, he goes alongwith it. For Tom, rescuing Jim from captivity is an exercise and a challengethat has to be undertaken in as romantic a way as possible. Huck, on the otherhand, just wants to set Jim free. He respects Tom Sawyer’s style, but deep downrealizes that to him it is all a game. Huck has thought a lot on his long riverjourney. He has grown to know Jim as a person not just as a runaway slave, andit has become his considered opinion that he should be free to live in peace withhis wife and children. Huck had always kicked against captivity (life with WidowDouglas was claustrophobic) but on the river he found a truth and simplicity.The story ends, leaving the reader assuming that Huck will not return with Tomto St. Petersburg but once more strike off on his own. This edition has been abridged especially for the youngerlistener but remains romantic, funny and frightening. If your favorite episodehas been omitted please forgive us. It is the aim of the editor to wet young people’sappetites by introducing them to the rhythms of Mark Twain’s magical languageand rich cast of characters, so that they will want to hear more about him.That is when they should turn to the book. Notes by Jan FieldenCassette Information The Music The music on this cassette is taken from the NAXOS and MARCOPOLO catalogs JANÁCEK LACHIAN DANCES & TARAS BULBA 8.550411 Czecho-Slovak RSO (Bratislava) / Ondrej Lenárd KVANDALY WIND QUINTET OP. 34 8.553050 Oslo Wind Ensemble JANÁCEK SUITE OP. 3 - ADAGIO 8.220362 Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Pesek
  • • 作品列表
    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：23255  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

      • Tom Sawyer's Gang

      • Six Times Seven Is Thirty-Five

      • The Chance To Escape

      • BOOM!

      • A Dead Man

      • Sarah Williams?

      • Mary Williams!

      • St. Louis To Cairo

      • Steamboat a'Comin

      • The Duke & The Dauphin

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：23255  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

      • The Preacher King

      • Romeo, Juliet & Richard III

      • Old Jim Was Gone

      • Tom Is Huck & Huck Is Tom

      • The Perfect Plan

      • A Desprate Gang Of Cut-Throats

      • The Kind-Looking Doctor

      • A Letter From St. Petersburg

      • Jim Was Free