Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes eren literalment devorades per masses lectores. El seu èxit va sorprendre no només el seu autor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sinó també la majoria dels escriptors del seu
Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley-a sequel to Tom Sawyer-the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. More than a century after its publication, the critical debate over the symbolic significance of Huck's and Jim's voyage is still fresh, and it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor.
Tras la azarosa liberación de Jim, Tom Sawyer se había quedado sin aventuras que contar: hasta el cartero del pueblo osaba desafiarlo en interés trágico con una vieja historia ya caduca. Así que, cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de subir a un globo, no lo duda un instante. En Tom Sawyer en el extranjero nuestros heroes se pasean por un desierto africano que desata las fantasias orientales de Tom y permite al autor escribir algunas de sus paginas mas divertidas. En ellas se refleja como nunca el paralelismo Tom/don Quijote y Huck/Sancho. El volumen se cierra con Tom Sawyer, detective, en que se demuestra la capacidad de observacion de Tom y la ironia parodica de Twain.
Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur's utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic. Critically deemed one of Twain's finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.
