The 3 best books by the masterful Mark Twain

Samuel Langshorne Clemens decided one fine day to pursue journalism. His pseudonym would be Mark Twain, and taking advantage of the platform that some media gave him, he articulated (pun intended) his thinking contrary to everything that the mistreatment of peers entailed. In a country like the United States, which at the end of the XNUMXth century was still weighed down by powerful pro-slavery lobbies, it did not win much sympathy (I bring here an interesting reference to abolitionism in the United States, the underground railway).

So Mark Twain parked journalism and focused on literature, where he would end up being one of the references for all the new writers in his country. His extensive, all-encompassing work served as the cradle for future generations of new authors (as he also recognized William Faulkner occasionally).

But while his good work and charisma gave him growing glory and fame in the United States, his legacy crossed borders and spread throughout the world. Because Mark Twain had the virtue, scarce in our days, to reconcile youth and adult novels in the same work. Got so Tom Sawyer's adventures on the one hand and those of Huckleberry Finn on the other they will reach universality in the field of letters. It is not surprising that a mind capable of such a synthesis provided for a profuse narrative ensemble that embarked on a diversity of genres.

Unfortunately, Mark Twain's last years turned into deep sadness. It is not natural to survive a child, imagine how tragic it must be for it to occur in three of the four offspring. A widower and with that natural reiterative and heartbreaking sadness, Twain was fading between the last and emotional recognitions of an entire country.

3 Recommended Novels by Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer's adventures

How not to remember this huge novel? I guess a lot of kids like me got their hands on it. There was something magical in Tom Sawyer's life, it was not about traveling to the country of Fantasy, or facing dragons or monsters.

Tom Sawyer's were day-to-day adventures, like the ones you could live yourself with your gang of friends. Somehow the easy comparison of your adventures with Tom's brought you closer to fiction in a tangible way.

Your little town river became the Mississippi and the little things were enjoyed more intensely. But Tom Sawyer was also sneaking you into the adult world.

In Tom's experiences there were less kind moments, some tragedies and sorrows, the misunderstanding of adults and some of them that seemed to become the fictional monsters of other more fantastic novels, only with a weight of reality that made you predict that the adult world was not as idyllic as yours.

A book to enjoy reading and to express youth, a propitious age to read this novel, without detracting at all from a more adult reading that can re-awaken a glow of illusion when you no longer belong to Tom's world, or to the of your own childhood ...

Tom Sawyer's adventures

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It always seemed to me that the adventures of Huckleberry Finn had a darker, more seedy, more cruel point.

And it is that in it there was a marked point of social criticism. Huck travels with his black friend Ji in search of some kind of freedom that Jim doesn't seem to be able to enjoy because he's black. What finally results from the hardest moments is a greater exaltation of friendship, of adolescent energy that, channeled towards the right causes, can turn out to be a stirring hurricane of consciences.

But there are also moments of humor and fast-paced adventure, endless action towards a restorative outcome. Every adventure requires a mission, and the one in this novel is of great value, the greatest of treasures.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adam and Eve Diary

Only Mark Twain, with his inexhaustible creative ability, could consider a blog of those days in paradise for the only inhabitants who got free access, until they screwed it up with the manzanita ...

Humor but also the intention of a sociological essay on the relationship between the sexes. In reality, Paradise is in this case a matriarchy, Eva is the one who names everything, the one who knows how to do things so that paradise does not end up being chaos.

She discovers the potential of everything. Adam almost always only contemplates, admires the Eve capable of ruling in paradise, with the certain feeling that paradise would not be such without her. Although the work is in a certain way marked by sexist stereotypes of the time, it contributes much and good in that study of men and women.

A touch of humor brings us closer to paradise and shows us how those days were when we were about to live all in the best of spaces ...

The diaries of Adam and Eve
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