{"id":2368,"date":"2014-11-18T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:24:14","slug":"which-book-would-you-read-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/which-book-would-you-read-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Book Would You Read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate Mark Twain, we&#8217;d like to ask, which book would you read?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2372 alignleft\" alt=\"tom\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tom-190x300.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tom-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tom.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><strong>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author: Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 9780230030336<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain\u2019s tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life and array of irresistible characters\u2014the awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Aunt Polly, and the lovely, beguiling Becky\u2014as 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\u2019s sunny surface lurk hints of a darker reality, of youthful innocence and na\u00efvet\u00e9 confronting the cruelty, hypocrisy, and foolishness of the adult world\u2014a theme that would become more pronounced in Twain\u2019s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Despite such suggestions, Tom Sawyer remains Twain\u2019s joyful ode to the endless possibilities of childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Price: 5,5 GEL<\/p>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/macmillan\/adventures-of-tom-sawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/huck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2373\" alt=\"huck\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/huck-194x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/huck-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/huck-190x293.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/huck.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><strong>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author: Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>ISBN:9781405072342<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only one of Mark Twain&#8217;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.&#8221; T. S. Eliot<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Fleeing the respectable society that wants to &#8220;sivilize&#8221; 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 &#8220;there warn&#8217;t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don&#8217;t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;go to hell&#8221; rather than return Jim to slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain defined classic as &#8220;a book which people praise and don&#8217;t read&#8221;; Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twain&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Price: 5,5 GEL<\/p>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/macmillan\/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/prince.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2374\" alt=\"prince\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/prince-188x300.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/prince-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/prince.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><strong>The Prince and the Pauper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author: Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 9780140436693<\/p>\n<p>When Mark Twain\u2019s The Prince and the Pauper was published in 1881, the Atlanta Constitution sang its praises in no uncertain terms: \u201cThe book comes upon the reading public in the shape of a revelation.\u201d A timeless tale of switched identities, Twain\u2019s story revolves around the miserably poor Tom Canty \u201cof Offal Court,\u201d who is lucky enough to trade his rags for the gilded robes of England\u2019s 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 \u201cMerry England.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s most popular and oft-dramatized tales.<\/p>\n<p>Price: 15,9 GEL<\/p>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/classics\/the-prince-and-the-pauper\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button small blue\">Buy the Book<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate Mark Twain, we&#8217;d like to ask, which book &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[738,182,739,556,236,1657,250,737,741,249,325,235,624],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","tag-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-huckleberry-finn","tag-macmillan-readers","tag-mark-twain","tag-november-2014","tag-penguin-books","tag-the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer","tag-the-father-of-american-literature","tag-the-prince-and-the-pauper","tag-theme-of-the-week","tag-tom-sawyer","tag-which-book-would-you-read","cat_731"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}