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Huckleberry Finn (character)
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 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there", Chapter 17) 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 describes Huck as "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad", qualities for which he was admired by all the other children in the village, although their mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom 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 sequel, ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', the book is considered by many to be a masterpiece of American literature. It was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter. Plot Tom Sawyer is an orphan who lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, sometime in the 1840s. A fun-loving boy, he frequently skips school to play or go swimming. When Aunt Polly catches him sneaking home late on a Friday evening and discovers that he has been in a fight, she makes him w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Sawyer
Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: '' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and '' Tom Sawyer, Detective'' (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, ''Huck and Tom Among the Indians'', '' Schoolhouse Hill'', and ''Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy''. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only ''Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy'' has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. It is set in the 1840s in the Mississippi. Inspiration The fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant chief named Tom Sawyer, with whom Twain was acquainted in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter at ''The San Francisco Call''. Twain used to listen to Sawyer tell stories of his youth, " Sam, he would listen to these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Moran
Jackie Moran (January 26, 1923 – September 20, 1990) was an American movie actor who, between 1936 and 1946, appeared in over thirty films, primarily in teenage roles. Early life and Hollywood career A native of Mattoon, Illinois, John E. Moran first sang in a church choir. He was discovered by Mary Pickford who convinced his mother to take him to Hollywood for a screen test in 1935. Renamed Jackie Moran, he was subsequently cast in a number of substantial supporting roles. He became well-known with the 1938 release of David O. Selznick's production '' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer''. The 93-minute big-budget Technicolor film presented Moran as Huckleberry Finn to Tommy Kelly's Tom Sawyer. Jackie Moran received critical praise for his natural acting style. Jackie Moran went on to star in several youth-oriented films for low-budget and poverty-row studios, such as Republic and Monogram. His most frequent co-star was the one-year-younger Marcia Mae Jones, who appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Durkin
Trent "Junior" Durkin (July 2, 1915 – May 4, 1935) was an American stage and film actor. Career Trent Bernard Durkin was born in New York City in 1915. He began his acting career in theater as a child. Durkin first appeared in films in 1930, playing the role of Huckleberry Finn in ''Tom Sawyer'' (1930) and in ''Huckleberry Finn'' (1931), both times with Jackie Coogan playing Tom Sawyer. Under contract to RKO Radio Pictures, he was cast in a series of "B" films in comedy roles that capitalized on his gangly appearance. He co-starred in ''Hell's House'' (1932) with then newcomer Bette Davis. RKO began grooming him for more adult roles. In his final film, '' Chasing Yesterday'' (1935) starring Anne Shirley, he was billed as Trent Durkin. Death In 1935, Durkin was returning from a hunting trip in Mexico with Jackie Coogan and three others, including Coogan's father, Charles Jones (manager of the Coogan Ranch) and writer Robert Horner. Coogan's father had to swerve to avoid colli ... [...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. He played the title role in ''Huckleberry Finn'' in 1920, played supporting roles in ''Oliver Twist'' (1922), shared the lead with a dog in ''The Call of the Wilderness'' (1926) and s ... [...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 People'' ... [...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.” He 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 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 Saints, an expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as '' The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nati ... [...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 fa ... [...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 single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and 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 died in a North Hollywood rest home on Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Strips
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday papers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics. 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'', ''Bringing Up Father'', ''Marmaduke'', and '' Pearls Before Swine''. In the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in ''Popeye'', ''Captain Easy'', ''Buck Rogers'', ''Tarzan'', and '' Terry and the Pira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoolhouse Hill
''The Mysterious Stranger'' is a novel attempted 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". All the versions remained unfinished (with the debatable exception of the last one, ''No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger''). 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 Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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