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the run. Modern listeners will be intrigued by the unencumbered life of the
pair; they make do with coffee, fish from the river, and little else (but of
course, when they do need something extra, they don't mind helping
themselves to it without recourse to money!)
Huck and Jim have run-ins with desperados and family feuds and even
manage to get run down by a steamboat. The adventures ratchet up when
they are joined on the raft by a self-proclaimed "duke" and a "king" shysters both, who spend their time in figuring how to fleece the public in
the little river towns. And when Jim is captured and threatened with being
sent back into slavery, Huck enlists his old buddy Tom Sawyer in a frenzied,
desperate, and terribly funny rescue.
of the inequality that existed between the classes in Tudor England. In that sense, Twain
abandoned the wry Midwestern style for which he was best known and adopts a style
reminiscent of Charles Dickens.
This short novel of Twains, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family
pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart-wrenching tenderness fill this work. The story is also
filled with happy events as well as sad ones and is ultimately about what dogs are to us best
friends. A Dogs Tale is quintessentially Twain.
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political
theorist Niccol Machiavelli. The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of
accepting that ends of princes, such as glory, and indeed survival, can justify the use of immoral
means to achieve those ends.