Pour échapper à un père toujours plus violent, Huckleberry Finn décide de disparaître. Se faisant passer pour mort, le jeune garçon croise la route du vieux Jim, un esclave évadé. Ensemble, les fugitifs vont descendre le Mississipi en radeau, affronter les bandits et un duo de redoutables escrocs. Mais un danger plus grand les menace : une prime est offerte pour la capture de Jim...

Les aventures de Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in the quaint town of St. Petersburg, just off the shore of the Mississippi River. St. Petersburg is described as a typical small-town atmosphere where the Christian faith is predominant, the social network is close-knit, and familiarity resides.  Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives "lickings" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a "tattle-tale."  As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.Excerpt:"TOM!" No answer. "TOM!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!" No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear: "Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll—" She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat. "I never did see the beat of that boy!"

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

" Il n'y a rien de plus bas dans la race humaine que les Français ". Mark Twain haïssait la France avec passion, si l'on en croit ce mot péremptoire. Entre ironie et provocation, sarcasme et mauvaise foi, l'humoriste américain attaque allègrement la morale, l'histoire et la politique françaises qu'il juge en touriste, en puritain et en écrivain. Dans ce recueil de textes qui mêle un essai comparatif entre Français et Comanches, le récit d'un voyage dans la nation de Napoléon III en 1867, un faux reportage sur un grand duel de Gambetta sous la Troisième République, un conte saugrenu autour du peintre Millet, des notes piquantes sur Paris et les Parisiens, ou la relation d'une cure thermale à Aix-les-Bains, on goûtera la verve, l'invention et parfois la cruauté dont sait faire preuve Mark Twain dans ce portrait de la France et de ses drôles d'autochtones à la fin du XIXe siècle.

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Un choix de 22 nouvelles du génial humoriste américain.On croisera une grenouille de compétition, une montre hystérique, un fantôme maladroit et encombrant, une dinde facétieuse, une foule de personnages pittoresques, de situations absurdes nées de l'imagination excentrique de l'auteur, qui prouve, avec ce choix de vingt-deux nouvelles, qu'il est un humoriste d'une étonnante modernité.

Nouvelles du Mississippi et d'ailleurs

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 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.'

 An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.

 Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to tell a soul about what they have seen and so begins their journey into adulthood as Tom wrestles with his own morality, guilt and anxiety.

 A 'coming of age' tale, it is through Tom's adventures and relationships with others that he becomes more responsible and more aware of his own inner conflict. Through the central characters of Tom and Huck, Twain satirises the moral rigidity of society and adult hypocrisy, whilst at the same time giving a nostalgic portrayal of a young boy's journey into adulthood.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Le Rapt de l'éléphant blanc

You have heard from a great many people who did something in the war; is it not fair and right that you listen a little moment to one who started out to do something in it, but didn't? Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, and then stepped out again, permanently. These, by their very numbers, are respectable, and are therefore entitled to a sort of voice, -not a loud one, but a modest one; not a boastful one, but an apologetic one. They ought not to be allowed much space among better people-people who did something-I grant that; but they ought at least to be allowed to state why they didn't do anything, and also to explain the process by which they didn't do anything. Surely this kind of light must have a sort of value.

Les aventures de Huckleberry Finn

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