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Описание
Книга представляет собой сборник повествований, в которых автор исследует темы честности, коррупции, религиозных манипуляций, журналистики, дипломатии и войны, показывая, как эти силы влияют на общество и личность.
Главный конфликт / проблема
Конфликт между честностью и коррупцией, а также манипуляция религиозными и политическими убеждениями, приводящая к разрушению общества и личных трагедий
Ключевые идеи
- Честность Хэдлибурга делает его уязвимым для манипуляций.
- Незнакомец использует репутацию города, чтобы запустить план обмана, оставив мешок с золотом и загадочное письмо.
- Письмо содержит «тест», который должен подтвердить, кто дал незнакомцу двадцать долларов.
- Общественный поиск благодетеля приводит к подозрениям, спорам и разрыву доверия между жителями.
- Богатство и коррупция разрушают моральный фундамент общества.
- Психологическое давление и страх разоблачения приводят к психическим расстройствам и трагическим последствиям.
- Богатство может изменить личность и отношения, как показано в истории Ласки.
- Христианская наука как псевдонаука, утверждающая, что боль и болезнь – иллюзии.
- Роль воображения и веры в исцелении, а также критика эффективности «отсутствующего» лечения.
- Финансовая модель «Eddy Trust» и её влияние на распространение учения.
- Стремление Марка Твена к признанию как литературного деятеля и его первые публикации
- Проблемы выживания и документирования в экстремальных условиях
Вывод
Книга приводит к выводу, что честность, критическое мышление и открытость необходимы для преодоления коррупции и манипуляций, иначе общество и индивиды страдают.
Кому полезна
- Студенты истории
- Политология
- Журналистика
- Литература
- Широкая аудитория, интересующаяся этикой и психологией
Главные темы
- Честность и коррупция
- Критика религиозных учений
- Журналистика и документирование
- Дипломатия и парламентские конфликты
- Война и личные испытания
- Культурные и литературные влияния
Персонажи
- Stephenson — Он символизирует коррупцию и манипуляцию. Участвует в обсуждении богатства Gretchen
- Незнакомец — Человек, который знает о репутации Хэдлибурга и использует её, чтобы запустить план обмана.
- Эдвард Ричардс — Он пытается справиться с чувством вины за получение денег и сталкивается с психическим истощением.
- Мэри Ричардс — Она переживает страх разоблачения и пытается удержать семью.
- Баркли Гудсон — Возможно, тот, кто дал незнакомцу двадцать долларов.
- Бургесс — Он одновременно благодарит и обвиняет Ричардс.
- Ласка — Она описывает богатство своего отца и свою любовь к Калуле.
- Марк Твен — Стремится стать литературным деятелем, публикует статьи, записывает дневники, переживает выживание в открытом судне и отвечает на письмо юриста о причинах антисемитизма.
- Капитан Джозеф Митчелл — Опытный моряк, организует спасение после пожара, руководит открытым судном.
- Юрист — Американский юрист, задающий вопросы о роли и положении евреев.
- Доктор Фуллер — Предоставляет «отсутствующее» лечение и объясняет теорию христианской науки.
- Смит — Рассказывает историю о художниках и их планах.
Цитаты
- Я благодарен Америке за то, что получил от неё, и особенно за доброту одного жителя Хэдлибурга.
- Тест, который я провёл, звучал так: «Вы далеко от того, чтобы быть плохим человеком; идите и исправляйтесь».
- Письмо Бургесс усиливает подозрения и приводит к психическому истощению Эдварда.
- Богатство может изменить личность и отношения, как показано в истории Ласки.
- «Нет такой вещи, как боль, болезнь и смерть».
- «Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures».
- «Я не давал банкет, я не давал банкет, я был литературным человеком, но это всё было погребено живой смертью»
- «Семь дней, и мы будем в пути к островам, но мы будем в пути к островам, но мы будем в пути к островам»
- «Еврей – это самый благородный из всех народов, его семья крепко связана любовью и уважением к старшим»
- «Театр – это не только развлечение, но и способ передать глубокие философские идеи и ценности»
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1835–1910. Mark Twain. американский писатель, журналист и общественный деятель (1835–1910)
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Страница 2 из 100Mrs. Richards sat down, gently quivering with excitement, and was soon lost in thinkings—after this pattern: "What a strange thing it is! ... And what a fortune for that kind man who set his bread afloat upon the waters!... If it had only been my husband that did it!—for we are so poor, so old and poor!..." Then, with a sigh—"But it was not my Edward; no, it was not he that gave a stranger twenty dollars. It is a pity too; I see it now...." Then, with a shudder—"But it is GAMBLERS' money! the wages of sin; we couldn't take it; we couldn't touch it. I don't like to be near it; it seems a defilement." She moved to a farther chair... "I wish Edward would come, and take it to the bank; a burglar might come at any moment; it is dreadful to be here all alone with it."
At eleven Mr. Richards arrived, and while his wife was saying "I am SO glad you've come!" he was saying, "I am so tired—tired clear out; it is dreadful to be poor, and have to make these dismal journeys at my time of life. Always at the grind, grind, grind, on a salary—another man's slave, and he sitting at home in his slippers, rich and comfortable."
"I am so sorry for you, Edward, you know that; but be comforted; we have our livelihood; we have our good name—"
"Yes, Mary, and that is everything. Don't mind my talk—it's just a moment's irritation and doesn't mean anything. Kiss me—there, it's all gone now, and I am not complaining any more. What have you been getting? What's in the sack?"
Then his wife told him the great secret. It dazed him for a moment; then he said:
"It weighs a hundred and sixty pounds? Why, Mary, it's for-ty thousand dollars—think of it—a whole fortune! Not ten men in this village are worth that much. Give me the paper."
He skimmed through it and said:
"Isn't it an adventure! Why, it's a romance; it's like the impossible things one reads about in books, and never sees in life." He was well stirred up now; cheerful, even gleeful. He tapped his old wife on the cheek, and said humorously, "Why, we're rich, Mary, rich; all we've got to do is to bury the money and burn the papers. If the gambler ever comes to inquire, we'll merely look coldly upon him and say: 'What is this nonsense you are talking? We have never heard of you and your sack of gold before;' and then he would look foolish, and—"
"And in the meantime, while you are running on with your jokes, the money is still here, and it is fast getting along toward burglar-time."
"True. Very well, what shall we do—make the inquiry private? No, not that; it would spoil the romance. The public method is better. Think what a noise it will make! And it will make all the other towns jealous; for no stranger would trust such a thing to any town but Hadleyburg, and they know it. It's a great card for us. I must get to the printing-office now, or I shall be too late."
"But stop—stop—don't leave me here alone with it, Edward!"
But he was gone. For only a little while, however. Not far from his own house he met the editor—proprietor of the paper, and gave him the document, and said "Here is a good thing for you, Cox—put it in."
"It may be too late, Mr. Richards, but I'll see."
At home again, he and his wife sat down to talk the charming mystery over; they were in no condition for sleep. The first question was, Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars? It seemed a simple one; both answered it in the same breath—
"Yes," said Richards, "he could have done it, and it would have been like him, but there's not another in the town."
"Everybody will grant that, Edward—grant it privately, anyway. For six months, now, the village has been its own proper self once more—honest, narrow, self-righteous, and stingy."
"It is what he always called it, to the day of his death—said it right out publicly, too."
"Yes, and he was hated for it."
"Oh, of course; but he didn't care. I reckon he was the best-hated man among us, except the Reverend Burgess."
"Well, Burgess deserves it—he will never get another congregation here. Mean as the town is, it knows how to estimate HIM. Edward, doesn't it seem odd that the stranger should appoint Burgess to deliver the money?"
"Well, yes—it does. That is—that is—"
"Why so much that-IS-ing? Would YOU select him?"
"Mary, maybe the stranger knows him better than this village does."
"Much THAT would help Burgess!"
The husband seemed perplexed for an answer; the wife kept a steady eye upon him, and waited. Finally Richards said, with the hesitancy of one who is making a statement which is likely to encounter doubt,
"Mary, Burgess is not a bad man."
His wife was certainly surprised.
"Nonsense!" she exclaimed.
"He is not a bad man. I know. The whole of his unpopularity had its foundation in that one thing—the thing that made so much noise."
"That 'one thing,' indeed! As if that 'one thing' wasn't enough, all by itself."
"Plenty. Plenty. Only he wasn't guilty of it."
"How you talk! Not guilty of it! Everybody knows he WAS guilty."
"Mary, I give you my word—he was innocent."
"I can't believe it and I don't. How do you know?"
"It is a confession. I am ashamed, but I will make it. I was the only man who knew he was innocent. I could have saved him, and—and—well, you know how the town was wrought up—I hadn't the pluck to do it. It would have turned everybody against me. I felt mean, ever so mean; ut I didn't dare; I hadn't the manliness to face that."
Mary looked troubled, and for a while was silent. Then she said stammeringly:
"I—I don't think it would have done for you to—to—One mustn't—er—public opinion—one has to be so careful—so—" It was a difficult road, and she got mired; but after a little she got started again. "It was a great pity, but—Why, we couldn't afford it, Edward—we couldn't indeed. Oh, I wouldn't have had you do it for anything!"
"It would have lost us the good-will of so many people, Mary; and then—and then—"
"What troubles me now is, what HE thinks of us, Edward."
"He? HE doesn't suspect that I could have saved him."
"Oh," exclaimed the wife, in a tone of relief, "I am glad of that. As long as he doesn't know that you could have saved him, he—he—well that makes it a great deal better. Why, I might have known he didn't know, because he is always trying to be friendly with us, as little encouragement as we give him. More than once people have twitted me with it. There's the Wilsons, and the Wilcoxes, and the Harknesses, they take a mean pleasure in saying 'YOUR FRIEND Burgess,' because they know it pesters me. I wish he wouldn't persist in liking us so; I can't think why he keeps it up."
"I can explain it. It's another confession. When the thing was new and hot, and the town made a plan to ride him on a rail, my conscience hurt me so that I couldn't stand it, and I went privately and gave him notice, and he got out of the town and stayed out till it was safe to come back."
"Edward! If the town had found it out—"
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And what a fortune for that kind man who set his bread afloat upon the waters!... If it had only been my husband that did it!—for we are so poor, so old and poor!...\" Then, with a sigh—\"But it was not my Edward; no, it was not he that gave a stranger twenty dollars. It is a pity too; I see it now....\" Then, with a shudder—\"But it is GAMBLERS' money! the wages of sin; we couldn't take it; we couldn't touch it. I don't like to be near it; it seems a defilement.\" She moved to a farther chair... \"I wish Edward would come, and take it to the bank; a burglar might come at any moment; it is dreadful to be here all alone with it.\""},{"id":"id146:15","kind":"paragraph","text":"At eleven Mr. Richards arrived, and while his wife was saying \"I am SO glad you've come!\" he was saying, \"I am so tired—tired clear out; it is dreadful to be poor, and have to make these dismal journeys at my time of life. Always at the grind, grind, grind, on a salary—another man's slave, and he sitting at home in his slippers, rich and comfortable.\""},{"id":"id146:16","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I am so sorry for you, Edward, you know that; but be comforted; we have our livelihood; we have our good name—\""},{"id":"id146:17","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Yes, Mary, and that is everything. Don't mind my talk—it's just a moment's irritation and doesn't mean anything. Kiss me—there, it's all gone now, and I am not complaining any more. What have you been getting? What's in the sack?\""},{"id":"id146:18","kind":"paragraph","text":"Then his wife told him the great secret. It dazed him for a moment; then he said:"},{"id":"id146:19","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"It weighs a hundred and sixty pounds? Why, Mary, it's for-ty thousand dollars—think of it—a whole fortune! Not ten men in this village are worth that much. Give me the paper.\""},{"id":"id146:20","kind":"paragraph","text":"He skimmed through it and said:"},{"id":"id146:21","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Isn't it an adventure! Why, it's a romance; it's like the impossible things one reads about in books, and never sees in life.\" He was well stirred up now; cheerful, even gleeful. He tapped his old wife on the cheek, and said humorously, \"Why, we're rich, Mary, rich; all we've got to do is to bury the money and burn the papers. If the gambler ever comes to inquire, we'll merely look coldly upon him and say: 'What is this nonsense you are talking? We have never heard of you and your sack of gold before;' and then he would look foolish, and—\""},{"id":"id146:22","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"And in the meantime, while you are running on with your jokes, the money is still here, and it is fast getting along toward burglar-time.\""},{"id":"id146:23","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"True. Very well, what shall we do—make the inquiry private? No, not that; it would spoil the romance. The public method is better. Think what a noise it will make! And it will make all the other towns jealous; for no stranger would trust such a thing to any town but Hadleyburg, and they know it. It's a great card for us. I must get to the printing-office now, or I shall be too late.\""},{"id":"id146:24","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"But stop—stop—don't leave me here alone with it, Edward!\""},{"id":"id146:25","kind":"paragraph","text":"But he was gone. For only a little while, however. Not far from his own house he met the editor—proprietor of the paper, and gave him the document, and said \"Here is a good thing for you, Cox—put it in.\""},{"id":"id146:26","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"It may be too late, Mr. Richards, but I'll see.\""},{"id":"id146:27","kind":"paragraph","text":"At home again, he and his wife sat down to talk the charming mystery over; they were in no condition for sleep. The first question was, Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars? It seemed a simple one; both answered it in the same breath—"},{"id":"id146:28","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Barclay Goodson.\""},{"id":"id146:29","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Yes,\" said Richards, \"he could have done it, and it would have been like him, but there's not another in the town.\""},{"id":"id146:30","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Everybody will grant that, Edward—grant it privately, anyway. For six months, now, the village has been its own proper self once more—honest, narrow, self-righteous, and stingy.\""},{"id":"id146:31","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"It is what he always called it, to the day of his death—said it right out publicly, too.\""},{"id":"id146:32","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Yes, and he was hated for it.\""},{"id":"id146:33","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Oh, of course; but he didn't care. I reckon he was the best-hated man among us, except the Reverend Burgess.\""},{"id":"id146:34","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Well, Burgess deserves it—he will never get another congregation here. Mean as the town is, it knows how to estimate HIM. Edward, doesn't it seem odd that the stranger should appoint Burgess to deliver the money?\""},{"id":"id146:35","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Well, yes—it does. That is—that is—\""},{"id":"id146:36","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Why so much that-IS-ing? Would YOU select him?\""},{"id":"id146:37","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Mary, maybe the stranger knows him better than this village does.\""},{"id":"id146:38","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Much THAT would help Burgess!\""},{"id":"id146:39","kind":"paragraph","text":"The husband seemed perplexed for an answer; the wife kept a steady eye upon him, and waited. Finally Richards said, with the hesitancy of one who is making a statement which is likely to encounter doubt,"},{"id":"id146:40","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Mary, Burgess is not a bad man.\""},{"id":"id146:41","kind":"paragraph","text":"His wife was certainly surprised."},{"id":"id146:42","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Nonsense!\" she exclaimed."},{"id":"id146:43","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"He is not a bad man. I know. The whole of his unpopularity had its foundation in that one thing—the thing that made so much noise.\""},{"id":"id146:44","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"That 'one thing,' indeed! As if that 'one thing' wasn't enough, all by itself.\""},{"id":"id146:45","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Plenty. Plenty. Only he wasn't guilty of it.\""},{"id":"id146:46","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"How you talk! Not guilty of it! Everybody knows he WAS guilty.\""},{"id":"id146:47","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Mary, I give you my word—he was innocent.\""},{"id":"id146:48","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I can't believe it and I don't. How do you know?\""},{"id":"id146:49","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"It is a confession. I am ashamed, but I will make it. I was the only man who knew he was innocent. I could have saved him, and—and—well, you know how the town was wrought up—I hadn't the pluck to do it. It would have turned everybody against me. I felt mean, ever so mean; ut I didn't dare; I hadn't the manliness to face that.\""},{"id":"id146:50","kind":"paragraph","text":"Mary looked troubled, and for a while was silent. Then she said stammeringly:"},{"id":"id146:51","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I—I don't think it would have done for you to—to—One mustn't—er—public opinion—one has to be so careful—so—\" It was a difficult road, and she got mired; but after a little she got started again. \"It was a great pity, but—Why, we couldn't afford it, Edward—we couldn't indeed. Oh, I wouldn't have had you do it for anything!\""},{"id":"id146:52","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"It would have lost us the good-will of so many people, Mary; and then—and then—\""},{"id":"id146:53","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"What troubles me now is, what HE thinks of us, Edward.\""},{"id":"id146:54","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"He? HE doesn't suspect that I could have saved him.\""},{"id":"id146:55","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Oh,\" exclaimed the wife, in a tone of relief, \"I am glad of that. As long as he doesn't know that you could have saved him, he—he—well that makes it a great deal better. Why, I might have known he didn't know, because he is always trying to be friendly with us, as little encouragement as we give him. More than once people have twitted me with it. There's the Wilsons, and the Wilcoxes, and the Harknesses, they take a mean pleasure in saying 'YOUR FRIEND Burgess,' because they know it pesters me. I wish he wouldn't persist in liking us so; I can't think why he keeps it up.\""},{"id":"id146:56","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I can explain it. It's another confession. When the thing was new and hot, and the town made a plan to ride him on a rail, my conscience hurt me so that I couldn't stand it, and I went privately and gave him notice, and he got out of the town and stayed out till it was safe to come back.\""},{"id":"id146:57","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Edward! If the town had found it out—\""}],"toc":[{"id":"id148:0:1","label":"THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG AND OTHER STORIES By Mark Twain","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/0acb44IH#reader-content"},{"id":"id147:0:1","label":"THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/0acb44IH#reader-content"},{"id":"id146:0:1","label":"I","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/0acb44IH#reader-content"},{"id":"id145:0:4","label":"II","page":4,"pageUrl":"/books/0acb44IH?page=4#reader-content"},{"id":"id144:0:7","label":"III","page":7,"pageUrl":"/books/0acb44IH?page=7#reader-content"},{"id":"id143:0:13","label":"IV","page":13,"pageUrl":"/books/0acb44IH?page=13#reader-content"},{"id":"id142:0:15","label":"MY FIRST LIE, AND HOW I GOT OUT OF IT","page":15,"pageUrl":"/books/0acb44IH?page=15#reader-content"},{"id":"id141:0:17","label":"THE ESQUIMAUX MAIDEN'S ROMANCE","page":17,"pageUrl":"/books/0acb44IH?page=17#reader-content"},{"id":"id140:0:22","label":"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE BOOK OF MRS. 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