Fuyant un père indigne, cupide et ivrogne, Huckleberry se retrouve à la dérive surl'Illinois, à bord d'un radeau, en compagnie de Jim, l'esclave noir évadé qu'il voudrait emmener dans un État abolitionniste. Poursuivis, aux prises avec deux mauvais sujets qui vendront le pauvre Jim à l'oncle de Tom Sawyer, ils traverseront mille aventures à travers lesquelles Mark Twain brosse le tableau à la fois joyeux et féroce d'une Amérique peuplée d'aventuriers et de braves gens, de trafiquants et de pauvres diables, de colons et d'esclaves.

Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn

Amérique, vers 1840. Le jeune Tom Sawyer n'a qu'une idée en tête : faire l'école buissonnière et partir en quête d'un trésor caché. Avec son fidèle compagnon Huckleberry Finn, ils sont tour à tour pirates, aventuriers, cow-boys. La découverte d'un crime nocturne met leur courage et leur raison à l'épreuve.

Les aventures de Tom Sawyer - Cycle 3

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Roughing It" is formatted for your eReader with a   functional and detailed table of contents.
Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, Roughing It follows the   travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861-1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his   brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada   Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary   to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for   many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early   adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting,   real-estate speculation, a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and his   beginnings as a writer.
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910),   quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The   Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Roughing It

Here is the story of Tom, Huck, Becky, and Aunt Polly; a tale of adventures, pranks, playing hockey, and summertime fun. Written by the author sometimes called "the Lincoln of literature, " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was surprisingly neither a critical nor a financial success when it was first published in 1876. It was Mark Twain's first novel. However, since then Tom Sawyer has become his most popular work, enjoying dramatic, film, and even Broadway musical interpretations. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fascinating and adventurous book about a boy named Tom Sawyer. He has a major crush on a girl called Becky Thacker. In this book, Tom goes to an island with two of his friends, attends their own funeral, and look for treasure! Tom sees Injun Joe a killer with treasure. He wants it, but his only clue where Injun Joe hid it is that it has something to do with number 2. Tom is now lost in a cave all alone with Becky. Can he find his way out of the cave and~~ the way to the treasure? I agree with Mark Twain's decisions and ideas. I believe that I would be doing the same thing if I were in his position. His decisions are able to happen; yet The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is such a good book. I would recommend this book to people who like adventurous books, and likes classics. It leaves you at so many cliffhangers that you can help but read all of it at once, for the people who like cliffhangers. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of this timeless story.

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The original edition of the young boy growing up along the Mississippi River novel

Cette collection a été spécialement conçue pour des jeunes lecteurs de 7 ans, scolarisés en classe de CE1. Elle reprend des grands textes de la littérature pour enfants et adolescents tout en les rendant accessibles à leur niveau de compréhension. Les textes sont adaptés pour être lisibles et compréhensibles par des lecteurs de CE1. De belles illustrations les accompagnent. En fin d'ouvrage, un lexique et des questions de compréhension permettent de vérifier que l'enfant a bien saisi ce qu'il a lu.

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer est publié en 1876 et remporte un succès immédiat. Son auteur, Mark Twain vient du sud des États-Unis, et c'est dans ce contexte régional et culturel qu'il situe les histoires de deux jeunes amis, Tom Sawyer et Huckleberry Finn, témoins malgré eux d'un meurtre ! Sur les bords du Mississipi, les deux garçons vont apprendre le courage et l'amitié.

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

This comedy, which has never appeared in print or on stage, is at last available to the wide audience Mark Twain always wished it to reach. Written in 1898 in Vienna, as Twain emerged from one of the deepest depressions of his life, Is He Dead? shows his superb gift for humor operating at its most energetic. A reflection of Twain's perennial fascination with the theater, the play is sure to become a treasured addition to his remarkable legacy.Elements of farce and social satire work together in Is He Dead? as Twain takes a characteristically wry look at the world market in art. The play centers on a group of poor artists in Barbizon, France, who stage the death of a friend to drive up the price of his paintings. In order to make this scheme succeed, the artists hatch various hilarious plots involving cross-dressing, a full-scale fake funeral, lovers' deceptions, and much more.

Mort ou vivant ?

L'oeuvre de Mark Twain (1835-1910) est considérable. À une anthologie rendant compte de sa diversité, on a préféré le remembrement, en quatre ouvrages, d'un territoire de l'imagination de l'auteur : son petit carré de terre natale, d'où il a tiré un monde d'histoires qui n'ont pas cessé d'enchanter, et des images d'une Amérique que nul n'avait montrée avant lui, une Amérique des lisières, celle de l'Ouest à demi-sauvage, qui se confondait presque entièrement avec celle du vieux Sud esclavagiste. Sont réunis ici quatre textes dans lesquels s'exprime l'inspiration mississippienne de l'écrivain : trois romans et un long récit, La Vie sur le Mississippi. Trois de ces oeuvres, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn et le récit consacré au Père des eaux, sont accompagnées de l'intégralité des illustrations qui figuraient dans les publications originales. 
Les origines de Twain lui donnent accès, en plein coeur de cet immense chantier politique, économique et culturel qu'est le XIXe siècle aux États-Unis, à un carrefour d'états et de conditions de la vie américaine, auxquels ses propres complexités intérieures sauront faire écho. Des aventures sensationnelles de Tom Sawyer dans un village digne d'un conte de fées, aux terreurs de l'esclavage qui entraînent une métisse et son fils dans une folie de destruction mutuelle (c'est la tragédie contée dans David Wilson), en passant par les splendeurs et le déclin de la batellerie du Mississippi, Twain aura fait le tour du propriétaire, haussant un monde d'expériences personnelles au rang de patrimoine national. Encore fallait-il qu'à un moment de sa vie et de son activité littéraire, il ressentît l'appel de son enfance perdue. Huckleberry Finn, son chef-d'oeuvre, donne la clef de ce retour amont en quatre temps vers la minuscule capitale de sa mémoire, où il met au jour quelques-unes des fondations de la société américaine. Le microcosme mississippien est le refuge des escrocs et imposteurs de tout poil ; le Sud esclavagiste, une mascarade tragique où ni le maître ni l'esclave ne sont ce qu'ils paraissent. L'identité, qu'est-ce précisément? une fiction? Qui est encore libre au pays de la déclaration d'Indépendance? C'est, au fond, la question qui hante Huckleberry Finn, roman écrit dans une langue neuve, inouïe - l'américain -, à laquelle l'éblouissante traduction de Philippe Jaworski rend pleinement justice.

Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn

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