{"title":"Mark Twain","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"adventures-of-huckleberry-finn","title":"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in Britain in 1884 and in the United States in 1885, Mark Twain’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows a boy’s escape from the constraints of respectable society and his journey down the Mississippi River with Jim, an enslaved man fleeing captivity. Set in the antebellum American South, the novel unfolds through Huck’s distinctive vernacular voice, combining comic adventure with an unflinching portrait of a society shaped by slavery, prejudice and hypocrisy. 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Tom Sawyer, a restless and resourceful young troublemaker, navigates school, family life and friendship with his companion Huckleberry Finn, turning ordinary days into elaborate adventures. From the celebrated episode of the whitewashed fence to a frightening excursion into a cave, Tom’s escapades reveal a world in which childhood’s games brush against genuine danger, moral uncertainty and the mysteries of adult life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten with Twain’s characteristic wit and ear for American vernacular, the novel evokes a nineteenth-century river town while gently exposing the conventions and hypocrisies of respectable society. Beneath its comedy lies a tender portrait of growing up: the desire for independence, the pull of belonging and the gradual discovery that courage carries responsibility. A defining work of American fiction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e also introduces the world and characters that Twain would revisit with darker moral complexity in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Mark Twain, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The novel is a portrait of boyhood that remains one of the most vivid in American literature.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— The Encyclopaedia Britannica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64073036923210,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1028\/0389\/8698\/files\/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-mark-twain-english-bookstore-paris.png?v=1792946665"},{"product_id":"a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court","title":"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1889, Mark Twain’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e transports Hank Morgan, a practical engineer from nineteenth-century America, to the world of King Arthur’s Britain after a blow to the head leaves him stranded in the sixth century. Armed with modern knowledge and an irreverent faith in technology, Hank sets out to transform Camelot through inventions, newspapers, schools and industrial progress, challenging the authority of kings, nobles and the Church. What begins as a comic collision between modern ingenuity and medieval romance gradually becomes a sharper examination of power, superstition and the human cost of supposedly enlightened ambition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlending Arthurian legend with satire, fantasy and political criticism, Twain’s novel questions whether technological progress necessarily brings moral improvement. Its irreverence towards inherited privilege and religious authority made it controversial on publication, while its vision of modernity confronting an idealised past gives the story an enduringly unsettling edge. 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