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Au cours d'une bagarre dans une de ses usines, un Yankee, self-made man audacieux, Hank Morgan, se retrouve subitement projeté treize cents ans en arrière, à la cour du roi Arthur. « Que peut faire un homme entreprenant, opportuniste et inventif, au milieu d'individus comme sire Galaad, sire Lancelot ou Merlin l'Enchanteur, ce magicien de pacotille ? » Telle est la question qui se pose à lui dès son arrivée. Immédiatement, la réponse lui apparaît : « Devenir le Sire Le Boss ! » Il n'aura de cesse, dès lors, de reconstruire son paradis perdu, et de faire de cette Grande-Bretagne, médiévale et confite en religion, une Amérique laïque des débuts de l'ère industrielle. Roman satirique et humoristique, grand précurseur de la Science-Fiction moderne, et en même temps, à la lisière de l'uchronie et du steampunk. Réédité ici avec les illustrations de la première édition américaine de 1889, voici un livre qu'il faut lire ou relire, jubilatoire et prémonitoire aussi d'un certain antagonisme culturel (voire plus...) entre une certaine vieille Europe et un certain nouveau Monde...

Mark Twain (1835-1910) écrivain nord-américain. Après une carrière de militaire, il devient imprimeur puis journaliste. Son roman publié en 1876, Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer, le rend immédiatement célèbre. On lui doit de nombreux romans (Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn, etc.) et contes ainsi que quelques essais dont un curieux Mémoires de Jeanne d'Arc ainsi que des récits de voyage (La vie sur le Mississippi, etc.).

Un Yankee à la cour du roi Arthur

Beloved for more than a century, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and continues the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim as they travel the Mississippi river valley. Criticized for its colloquial language and use of racial stereotypes and slurs, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exposes and challenges racist attitudes in the Southern United States at the close of the 19th century. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles--a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. The Prince, dressed in rags, wanders about the city's boisterous neighborhoods among the lower classes and endures a series of hardships; meanwhile, poor Tom, now living with the royals, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is.

Le Prince Et Le Pauvre

Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. But plenty of dangers wait for them along the river - will they survive and win their freedom?

The adventures of huckleberry finn

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 ?

This is Mark Twain's imaginative series of diary entries by Adam and Eve. At first, Adam is puzzled by this new arrival, Eve, in the garden, and he is suspicious of her disturbing appetite for fruit. Eve, believing herself to be some sort of experiment, is curious about another experiment in the garden, perhaps some sort of reptile or possibly architecture. Eve gives names to everything, much to Adam's annoyance. He tries to ignore her, so she seeks companionship among the animals particularly with a certain snake. Adam and Eve grow to love each other and, in the end, an elderly Adam is filled with a realization of that love as he stands at Eve's grave.

Journal D'ève Et D'adam

Du Nevada à la Californie, de Saint-Louis à San Francisco, À la dure raconte sept années d'aventures burlesques et tumultueuses d'un pied-tendre absolument maladroit, le genre à déclencher un vaste incendie tandis qu'il se prépare juste à dîner au bord d'un lac, ou à être pris dans une tempête de neige et se préparer à y mourir alors qu'il se trouve à quelques mètres d'un refuge. Ode comique à la nature sauvage, livre effervescent, à la fois débridé et d'une maîtrise narrative absolue, voici le Far West du père du roman américain, Mark Twain, le maître de Hemingway et Faulkner, Dos Passos et Steinbeck !

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