本书对马克?吐温脍炙人口的作品作了既深刻又通俗的解读,其中包括《汤姆?索亚历险记》和《哈克贝里?费恩历险记》。作者倾力向读者展示吐温式幽默,着重说明这种幽默的效果是如何产生的以及这种独特的幽默手法是如何成功烘托吐温的小说风格的。本书对初次接触吐温的读者非常有价值。
Preface
Note on referencing
1 Mark Twain's life
The early life
River boating, the Civil War, the West
Early success, marriage, the Hartford years
Expatriation, financial loss, family tragedy
The final years
2 Contexts
Samuel Langhorne Clemens and 'Mark Twain'
3 Works
Twain's humour
Travel and travel writing: Innocents Abroad,
A Tramp Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the
Mississippi
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee and Pudd'nhead Wilson
4 Critical reception and the late works
Notes
Guide to further reading
Index