მარკ ტვენმა „ჰეკლბერი ფინის თავგადასავლით“, ფაქტობრივად, დროს გაუსწრო და შემოგვთავაზა სრულიად ახალი, ჯანსაღი ხედვა სამყაროს მიმართ. მან რასიზმი ჯერ კიდევ მე-19 საუკუნის პრობლემად მიიჩნია და შექმნა ლიტერატურული პერსონაჟი, ჰეკლბერი ფინი, რომლის ბავშვური, კეთილი ბუნება გულწრფელად წუხდა და  ეწინააღმდეგებოდა ყველანაირ ჩაგვრასა და უთანასწორო მოპყრობას ადამიანების მიმართ.

როგორ ფიქრობთ, რას მოიმოქმედებდა ჰეკლბერი თანამედროვე სამყაროში, სადაც უთანასწორობის პრობლემა ორი საუკუნის შემდეგაც აქტუალურია?

წარმოიდგინეთ ჰეკის სრულიად უმანკო, კეთილი, სათნო და სამართლიანი ბუნება 21-ე საუკუნის დაუნდობელ სამყაროში. როგორ მოიქცეოდა ის? ადამიანთა უფლებებს სახალხოდ დაიცავდა? უამრავ ადამიანთან ერთად იბრძოლებდა?

ალბათ, მისი ჩუმი სიკეთე ყველაზე დიდი საჩუქარი იქნებოდა თანამედროვე სამყაროსთვის და ის კვლავ გააგრძელებდა ზრუნვას კონკრეტულ ადამიანებზე, რომელთა პიროვნული თავისუფლება ყველაზე დიდ დაცვასა და გაფრთხილებას მოითხოვს. ჰეკმა ზუსტად იცის, რომ თითოეული ადამიანის სიცოცხლე ისეთივე მნიშვნელოვანია, როგორც მილიონის და ასე, თავისთვის გააკეთებდა დიდ, თუმცა გაუხმაურებელ სიკეთეებს და ნაცრისფერ სამყაროს სიკეთის ფერებს, თავისებურ ტონებს შემატებდა.

ჰეკლბერი ფინი იქნებოდა ჩვენი მეზობელი,  მეგობარი, პარტნიორი წრეში ბურთში და ეზოში „დიდი ბიჭების“ მიერ დაჩაგრული პატარა და უმწერო გოგო-ბიჭების დამცველი. ის იქნებოდა  ჩვენ გვერდით მაშინ, როცა ეს დაგვჭირდებოდა და ყოველ წამს გაგვახსენებდა, რომ მანამ იარსებებს სამყარო, სანამ ადამიანებს სიკეთის კეთება შეგვეძლება.

To celebrate, he decided he wanted to give his new pet, Rothko, and millions of other rescue dogs a voice by creating a new photo series entitled Poetic Dogs.

Bannino wrote on the project’s IndieGoGo page: “#POETICDOGS is a photo-project where dogs are besides famous writers: Speaking through their expressions, sounds and movements, they’re telling you everything saying nothing, just like an author would do with words in a fine poem.”

All the dogs featured in the series are from the same kennel near Turin, in Italy, where Bannino’s dog, Rothko, was adopted from.

Charles Dickens

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Edgar Allan Poe

Emily Dickinson

Ernest Hemingway

James Joyce

Leo Tolstoy

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

William Shakespeare

You can see more of the pictures and learn about the dogs’ stories on Bannino’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

Row 1: (L-R) Adeline Yen Mah, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Leander Kahney, Albert Camus Row 2: (L-R) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, David Nicholls Row 3: (L-R) Roger Lancelyn Green, Jonathan Swift, L. M. Montgomery, Luke Rhinehart Row 4: (L-R) George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Richelle Mead

Albert Camus

(November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960)

Camus was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”

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Mark Twain

(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881) and Tom Sawyer’s sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

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Bram Stoker 

(November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912)

Stoker was an Irish author known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881)

Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. The Double was made into a film in 2013.

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Luke Rhinehart

(November 15, 1932 – )

George Cockcroft, known by his pen name Luke Rhinehart, is an American writer, most notable as the author of The Dice Man series.

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Richelle Mead

(November 12, 1976 – )

Mead is a bestselling American fantasy author. She is known for the Georgina Kincaid series, Vampire Academy. It was made into a film in 2014.

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Leander Kahney

(November 25, 1965 – )

Kahney is a technology writer and author. He is a former managing editor, and previously a senior reporter, at ‘Wired News’, the online sister publication of ‘Wired’.

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Winston Churchill

(November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965)

Churchill was a British politician and Nobel laureate who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer and an artist. Churchill is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its creation in 1901, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

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Roger Lancelyn Green

(November 2, 1918 – October 8, 1987)

Green was a British biographer who became known primarily for his writings for children, particularly his retellings of the stories of King Arthur, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, and Robin Hood, The Adventures of Robin Hood.

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Adeline Yen Mah

(November 30, 1937 – )

Mah is a Chinese-American author and physician. Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter describes her experiences growing up in China during the Second World War.

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Jonathan Swift

(November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745)

Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and cleric who is remembered for such work as Gulliver’s Travels.

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George Eliot

(November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880)

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of several novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861)  and Middlemarch (1871–72), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

(November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894)

Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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David Nicholls

(November 30, 1966 – )

Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter. His book, One Day, was turned into a film in 2011.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

(November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924)

Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-86) and The Secret Garden (1911). Both were made into films.

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L. M. Montgomery

(November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942)

Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780230030336

Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain’s tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life and array of irresistible characters—the awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Aunt Polly, and the lovely, beguiling Becky—as well as such unforgettable incidents as whitewashing a fence, swearing an oath in blood, and getting lost in a dark and labyrinthine cave. Below Tom Sawyer’s sunny surface lurk hints of a darker reality, of youthful innocence and naïveté confronting the cruelty, hypocrisy, and foolishness of the adult world—a theme that would become more pronounced in Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Despite such suggestions, Tom Sawyer remains Twain’s joyful ode to the endless possibilities of childhood.

Price: 5,5 GEL

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author: Mark Twain

ISBN:9781405072342

“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only one of Mark Twain’s various books which can be called a masterpiece. I do not suggest that it is his only book of permanent interest; but it is the only one in which his genius is completely realized, and the only one which creates its own category.” T. S. Eliot

Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypical American maverick.

Fleeing the respectable society that wants to “sivilize” him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing “there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”

As Huck learns about love, responsibility, and morality, the trip becomes a metaphoric voyage through his own soul, culminating in the glorious moment when he decides to “go to hell” rather than return Jim to slavery.

Mark Twain defined classic as “a book which people praise and don’t read”; Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twain’s mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, has made Adventures of Huckleberry Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written.

Price: 5,5 GEL

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The Prince and the Pauper

Author: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780140436693

When Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper was published in 1881, the Atlanta Constitution sang its praises in no uncertain terms: “The book comes upon the reading public in the shape of a revelation.” A timeless tale of switched identities, Twain’s story revolves around the miserably poor Tom Canty “of Offal Court,” who is lucky enough to trade his rags for the gilded robes of England’s prince, Edward Tudor. As each boy is mistaken for the other, Tom enters a realm of privilege and pleasure beyond his most delirious dreams, while Edward plunges into a cruel, dangerous world of beggars and thieves, cutthroats and killers. Befriended by the heroic Miles Hendon, Edward struggles to survive on the squalid streets of London, in the process learning about the underside of life in “Merry England.”

With its mixing of high adventure, raucous comedy, and scathing social criticism, presented in a hilarious faux-sixteenth-century vernacular that only Mark Twain could fashion, The Prince and the Pauper remains one of this incomparable humorist’s most popular and oft-dramatized tales.

Price: 15,9 GEL

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The theme for this week is going to about Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the latter often called “the Great American Novel”.

Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for the Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer novels.

Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley’s Comet, and he predicted that he would “go out with it”, too. He died the day following the comet’s subsequent return.

He was lauded as the “greatest American humorist of his age” and William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American literature”.

Enjoy a short video introducing you to Mark Twain’s home and museum!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5yClCgUp38

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Tom is a troublemaker. He plays hooky from school; hangs around with Huck Finn, the unsophisticated son of the village drunkard; and deceives his friends into trading their treasures with him.

From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult realitybase emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.

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Events inspired by Mark Twain’s works are some delightful highlights of this entertaining festival. From the National Fence Painting Contest to a Frog Jumping Contest to Live Entertainment at Tanyard Gardens, National Tom Sawyer Days is for the young and the young at heart. Visitors from all over the world come to experience the history of Hannibal, through the eyes of Mark Twain.

Here are some interesting facts about Mark Twain:

• His real name was Samuel Clemens
• Mark Twain was a pen name he picked up while writing for the Virginia City newspaper, which he first wrote under in 1863
• He also wrote under Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab, Sergeant Fathom, and Rambler during his career
• Before 13, he nearly drowned 9 documented times

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

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As you can remember, we dedicated last week to George Orwell. And now it’s time to announce the theme of this week. Here’s the hint:

“TOM!”
No answer.
“TOM!”
No answer.
“What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!”
No answer.

Yes, many of you most probably can recall these words. It’s the book that was and continues to be a part of the childhood of many people around the world – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

The reason we decided to dedicate this week to this wonderful book was the yearly celebrations to be held in USA on July 4th – National Tom Sawyer Days. National Tom Sawyer Days is a yearly event on 4 July, organized in Hannibal, Missouri in the United States – the hometown of Mark Twain.

Stay with us for other interesting content, connected to Tom Sawyer and Mark Twain. We wish you a wonderful and adventurous week!

Your EBG Team

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