|
Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, '' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884). He is 12 to 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen to fourteen or along there") at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' and '' Tom Sawyer, Detective'', two shorter sequels to the first two books. Characterization Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is the son of the town's vagrant drunkard, "Pap" Finn. Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair, in empty hogsheads during storms, and living off of what he gets from others, Huck lives the life of a destitute vagabond. The author metaphorically names him "the juvenile pariah of the village" and cites Huck's "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad" qualities as cause for admiration from all the other children in the village, although their mothers "cordially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by American literary regionalism, local color regionalism. It is told in the first-person narrative, first person by Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (''Tom Sawyer Abroad'' and ''Tom Sawyer, Detective'') and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer''. The book is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in the United States for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood". It is also known for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Antebellum South, Southern antebellum society that ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (also simply known as ''Tom Sawyer'') is a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876, about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1830s-1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime. Though overshadowed by its 1885 sequel, '' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', the book is considered by many to be a masterpiece of American literature. It is alleged by Mark Twain to be one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter. Summary Orphan Tom Sawyer (around 12 to 13 years old) lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, sometime in the 1830s-1840s. He frequently skips school to play or go swimming. When Poll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio River
The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi River in Cairo, Illinois, Cairo, Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United States and the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. It is also the sixth oldest river on the North American continent. The river flows through or along the border of six U.S. state, states, and its drainage basin includes parts of 14 states. Through its largest tributary, the Tennessee River, the basin includes several states of the southeastern United States. It is the source of drinking water for five million people. The river became a primary transportation route for pioneers during the westward expansion of the early U.S. The lower Ohio River just below Louisville was obstructed by rapids known as the Falls of the Oh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Sargent
Lewis Sargent (August 19, 1903 – November 19, 1970) was an American film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1917 and 1949. Biography Sargent was born in Los Angeles on August 19, 1903. He had 8 brothers and sisters. His father Lewis was a carpenter, and his older brother, Don Sargent, was a cinematographer in Hollywood for more than 40 years. He was an early friend of James Wong Howe. His ancestor William Sargent sailed to Agawam, Massachusetts, with Captain John Smith in 1614. Lewis W. Sargent was the third child of Lewis and Elsa Plath Sargent. He was a child actor in the early days of motion pictures until 1935 when he portrayed Major Francis Martling's assistant George in '' The New Adventures of Tarzan'', produced by its creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. This serial was shot in Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gordon (actor)
Robert Gordon (March 3, 1895 – October 26, 1971), born Robert Gordon Duncan, was an American silent film actor. He was born in Belleville, Kansas and died at the age of 76 in Victorville, California. He is credited with appearances in 35 films from 1917 to 1949. Partial filmography * '' The Varmint'' (1917) * '' Tom Sawyer'' (1917) * '' The Hired Man'' (1918) * '' 'Blue Blazes' Rawden'' (1918) * '' Huck and Tom'' (1918) * ''The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin'' (1918) * '' Missing'' (1918) * '' A Pair of Silk Stockings'' (1918) * '' Captain Kidd, Jr.'' (1919) * '' A Yankee Princess'' (1919) * '' The Blood Barrier'' (1920) * ''The Vice of Fools'' (1920) * '' Respectable by Proxy'' (1920) * '' My Husband's Other Wife'' (1920) * ''If Women Only Knew'' (1921) * '' The Rosary'' (1922) * '' The Super-Sex'' (1922) * '' The Mysterious Witness'' (1923) * '' The Greatest Menace'' (1923) * '' Main Street'' (1923) * '' Borrowed Husbands'' (1924) * '' The Measure of a Man'' (1924) * '' His Peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Moore
Neal Moore (born November 22, 1971) is an American writer and canoeist. He is the author of two non-fiction books—''Down the Mississippi'' and ''Homelands: A Memoir''—as well as numerous news articles. The Mark Twain Museum, ''CNN'' and '' The Times of London'' have dubbed him "the modern-day Huckleberry Finn.” Moore is the first person known to paddle a canoe solo and continuously across the United States from the West Coast to the East Coast. His journey linked 22 rivers and waterways in 22 states over 22 months, from Astoria, Oregon, to New York City, with a circuit of the Statue of Liberty as the grand finale. Early life and education Moore was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Highland Hall Waldorf School and was neighbors with the actor and comedian Richard Pryor. He lost his mother and his only sibling, an older brother, while still a teenager. By 19, he moved to South Africa to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ledger Syndicate
The Public Ledger Syndicate (known simply as the Ledger Syndicate) was a syndication company operated by the Philadelphia '' Public Ledger'' that was in business from 1915 to circa 1950 (outlasting the newspaper itself, which ceased publishing in 1942). The Ledger Syndicate distributed comic strips, panels, and columns to the United States and the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, and Australia. The syndicate also distributed material from the Curtis Publishing Company's (the ''Public Ledger'''s corporate parent) other publications, including ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Ladies' Home Journal'', and '' The Country Gentleman''. From 1933 to 1941, the Ledger Syndicate was a key contributor to the burgeoning comic book industry, with many of the company's strips published in both the seminal ''Funnies on Parade'', and what popular culture historians consider the first true American comic book, ''Famous Funnies''. For whatever reason, the Ledger Syndicate favor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Victor Dwiggins
Clare Victor Dwiggins (June 16, 1874 – October 26, 1958) was an American cartoonist who signed his work Dwig. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and comic strip#Cartoon panels, single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and print syndication, newspaper syndicates from 1897 until 1945, including his best-known strip, the long-running ''School Days'' (which appeared under a number of different titles). Biography Born in Wilmington, Ohio,Rath, Jay (May 1985). "Dwig, A Pen-and-Ink Poet". ''Nemo, the Classic Comics Library'', No. 11. Dwiggins was on a path toward a career in architecture but detoured into cartooning when his artwork was published in the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' and the ''New York World'' in 1897. He created a wide variety of gag panels, including ''J. Filliken Wilberfloss'', ''Leap Year Lizzie'', ''Them Was the Happy Days'', ''Uncle Jim and Tad and Tim'', ''Mrs. Bump's Boarding House'', ''Ophelia and Her Slate'' and ''Bill's Diary''. Dwiggins d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Strips
A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics terminology#Caption, captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal Daily comic strip, strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday newspaper, Sunday papers offered longer sequences in Sunday comics, special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics. Most strips are written and drawn by a comics artist, known as a cartoonist. As the word "comic" implies, strips are frequently humorous. Examples of these gag-a-day strips are ''Blondie (comic strip), Blondie'', ''Bringing Up Father'', ''Marmaduke'', and ''Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), Pearls Before Swine''. In the late 1920s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoolhouse Hill
''The Mysterious Stranger'' is a novella by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each involves a supernatural character called "Satan" or "No. 44", encountering Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Versions The three stories differ in length: ''The Chronicle of Young Satan'' has about 55,000 words, ''Schoolhouse Hill'' 15,300 words and ''No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger'' 65,000 words. "St. Petersburg Fragment" Mark Twain wrote the "St. Petersburg Fragment" in September 1897. It was set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, a name Twain often used for Hannibal, Missouri. Twain then revised this version, removing references to St. Petersburg, and used the text for ''The Chronicle of Young Satan''. ''The Chronicle of Young Satan'' The first substantial version is entitled ''The Chronicle of Young Satan'' (also referred to as the "Eseldorf" version) and relates the adventures of Satan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Twain's Autobiography
The ''Autobiography of Mark Twain'' is a written collection of reminiscences, the majority of which were dictated during the last few years of the life of the American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The ''Autobiography'' comprises a collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography. Twain never compiled the writings and dictations into a publishable form in his lifetime. Despite indications from Twain that he did not want his autobiography to be published for a century, he serialized selected chapters during his lifetime; in addition, various compilations were published during the 20th century. However, it was not until 2010 that the first volume of a comprehensive three-volume collection, compiled and edited by The Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, was published. Twain's writings and dictations Twain started the composition of an autobiography in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
