Vers 1845, à Saint Petersbourg, une petite ville du Missouri, le jeune Tom Sawyer mène la vie des garçons de son âge. Il joue des farces à sa tutrice Tante Polly, à l'instituteur, à ses camarades. Aux leçons de l'école ou de l'église, il préfère les jeux dans la foret et les escapades dans l'île Jackson. Or, l'enfant polisson et son ami Huckleberry Finn rencontrent bientôt l'aventure : meurtre nocturne dans un cimetière, enfermement dans un labyrinthe souterrain, chasse au trésor, alors qu'à tout instant menace la terrible figure de Joe l'Indien et qu'une histoire d'amour s'ébauche entre Tom et Becky, la fille du juge Thatcher...

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

Le Far West comme si vous y étiez, par le maître de Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Henry Miller, Steinbeck... Mark Twain nous conte ses aventures burlesques et tumultueuses lors de la ruée vers l'or, au cours desquelles il affrontera les Mormons, les Indiens, les coyotes, les tempêtes, les inondations, la neige, tâtera de la rude vie des pionniers dans les mines, connaîtra la griserie des grandes spéculations sur les concessions aurifères, et sera même millionnaire (potentiel) pendant dix jours !

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UNE EDITION INTEGRALE D'EXCEPTION / EXCEPTIONAL UNABRIDGED EDITION  Tom Sawyer vit avec sa tante Polly, qui a de nombreuses occasions de le punir, et Sid, son demi-frere instruit. Tom tombe amoureux de Becky Thatcher, une fille nouvellement installee en ville. Une nuit, il accompagne son meilleur ami, Huckleberry Finn, au cimetiere, ou ils sont temoins du pillage d'une tombe par trois hommes qu'ils connaissent...  "Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer" a ete publie pour la premiere fois en 1876. Figurant un des personnages les plus aimes de la fiction americaine, ce roman evoque la vie dans les villes des berges du Mississippi au 19eme siecle, ou Mark Twain a passe sa propre enfance. L'innocence et l'humour de ce roman tendrement nostalgique, cotoient la dure realite du monde adulte: superstitions, meurtre, vengeance, misere et esclavage.  Ce chef-d'oeuvre est cite comme 'Grand roman americain' (Great American novel), car c'est une oeuvre de grande valeur litteraire qui est emblematique de la culture des Etats Unis a une periode specifique dans l'histoire du pays.  Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) etait un auteur americain, humoriste, entrepreneur, editeur et conferencier. Il a d'abord ete pilote de bateau a vapeur sur la riviere Mississippi. 'Mark Twain' (marque "2"), phrase utilisee sur les bateaux a aubes pour indiquer que l'eau est profonde de deux brasses et donc navigable, est devenue le nom de plume sous lequel il acquit une renommee mondiale.

SATURDAY.-I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should remember it. It could be, of course, that it did happen, and that I was not noticing. Very well; I will be very watchful now, and if any day-before-yesterdays happen I will make a note of it. It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM-an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more.

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           ''We said there warn''t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don''t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.''  Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey down the Mississippi River. Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American novel.

Adventures of huckleberry finn

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.

Aventures de Huckleberry Finn

«Quiconque essaiera de trouver un sens à ce récit sera poursuivi ; quiconque essaiera d'y trouver une morale sera banni ; quiconque essaiera d'y trouver une intrigue sera fusillé.» Voilà l'avertissement que l'auteur adresse au lecteur des Aventures de Huckleberry Finn (1884).Et pourtant, lorsque Huck, l'ami de Tom Sawyer, descend le Mississippi en compagnie de Jim, un esclave en fuite, il est tiraillé par des injonctions morales contradictoires. Doit-il dénoncer Jim ? ou au contraire lui apporter son aide ? Tandis que les péripéties s'enchaînent le long du fleuve, le jeune garçon découvre la nature humaine dans toute sa noirceur.À travers ce roman, considéré outre-Atlantique comme fondateur de la littérature américaine, Twain dénonce férocement les cruautés de son temps, face auxquelles il dépeint l'éveil d'une conscience.

Les aventures de Huckleberry Finn

Ennuyé par Miss Watson qui veut lui enseigner les bonnes manières et las de la brutalité de son ivrogne de père, le jeune Huckleberry Finn, dit Huck, décide de fuguer a bord d'un radeau sur le fleuve Mississipi. Il est bientôt rejoint par Jim, un esclave en fuite. Les péripéties s'enchaînent jusqu'au jour où le Roi et le Duc, une incorrigible paire d'artistes arnaqueurs, prennent possession de leur embarcation. Après de nombreuses difficultés, Huck et Jim échappent à leurs bourreaux, grâce a l'aide d'une vieille connaissance de Huck, un certain... Tom Sawyer !

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!"

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