Cette maudite race humaine regroupe cinq textes d'un recueil de courts essais de Mark Twain, écrits à la fin de sa vie, publiés de manière posthume en anglais et encore jamais traduits en français. Tendre satire sur « le complexe de supériorité » de l'homme, cette volée de flèches désopilante sur la tendance anthropo-centrée de l'homme, révèle - s'il en était encore besoin - la causticité irrévérencieuse de cet auteur culte. Avec une préface de Nancy Huston.

Cette maudite race humaine

Escrita por Mark Twain y publicada por primera vez en 1881, "El príncipe y el mendigo" narra la historia de dos niños de apariencia idéntica: Tom Carty, un niño pobre y soñador, y el príncipe Eduardo, hijo de Enrique VIII de Inglaterra. Ambos intercambian sus roles, por lo que el príncipe, mezclado con el pueblo, conoce las injusticias conocidas por su gobierno. Un relato que invita a la reflexión a lectores de todas las edades.

EL príncipe y el mendigo

L'éléphant blanc de Mark Twain, publié en 1882 et prétendument retiré du récit A Tramp Abroad (1880), est prétexte à une gigantesque farce dont la police américaine fait les frais. Verve satirique et franche rigolade : Twain n'hésite pas à en rajouter, disperse des détectives sur la quasi totalité du territoire des Etats-Unis, avec mission de traquer, loupe à la main, à la recherche du moindre indice et des coupables, l'éléphant blanc du Siam qu'un sujet de sa Majesté se fait dérober à New York. Mais toute histoire a son héros : ici l'inspecteur chef Blunt, dont on ne peut qu'admirer la sagacité sans faille et l'extraordinaire maîtrise de soi.

Le vol de l'éléphant blanc

1840. Tom Sawyer, jeune orphelin, vit chez sa tante sur les rives du Mississipi, aux États-Unis. Il préfère jouer avec ses amis, Huckleberry et Joe, plutôt que d'aller à l'école. Mais un soir, alors qu'ils se trouvent dans un cimetière, les trois garçons sont témoins d'un terrible crime. Une drôle d'enquête commence alors pour les jeunes aventuriers !  Les points forts de l'édition « Déclic » :  LIRE Le texte enrichi de nombreuses images dans une mise en page vivante et aérée. COMPRENDRE Des questionnaires et des activités ludiques pour s'approprier le texte. RETENIR Un dossier complet et accessible pour retenir l'essentiel. PROLONGER Un groupement de textes et des conseils pour compléter la lecture. + ACCOMPAGNER De nombreux compléments numériques pour aider les élèves dans la lecture (le texte lu par un comédien, des extraits vidéo à visionner sur Internet, des versions epub de l'ouvrage et du texte accessible aux élèves DYS disponibles dans les librairies numériques).

Les aventures de Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain nous décrit les frasques et mésaventures de Tom Sawyer, jeune garçon à l'esprit vif et débordant d'imagination, élevé par sa tante, au bord du Mississipi. Tom ne loupe pas une occasion de se distinguer pour plaire à la jolie Becky, et il est toujours prêt pour vivre des aventures en compagnie de son inséparable ami Huckleberry Finn, fils de l'ivrogne du village. Un soir dans un cimetière, Tom et Huck sont témoins d'un meurtre. Muff Potter est accusé du crime, mais Tom et Huck savent que le véritable assassin est Joe l'Indien...

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his father, which latter had it of HIS father, this last having in like manner had it of HIS father-and so on, back and still back, three hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it COULD have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

The Prince and the Pauper

Admirateur de Mark Twain, ce personnage protéiforme et pétri de contradictions, Patrick Boman, écrivain voyageur et auteur de romans policiers, nous livre son choix d’aphorismes et de citations dans une traduction enlevée. On trouvera ci-dessous quelques exemples de humour, du talent de Mark Twain : La guerre : Un gaspillage aveugle de munitions. Obéissez toujours à vos parents… quand ils sont là. La France n’a ni hiver, ni été , ni moralité – à part ça c’est un pays super. Oui, je suis malhonnête. Pas de toutes les manières, mais de quelques-unes. Quarante et une, me semble-t-il.  Je suis né paresseux. Je ne suis pas plus paresseux aujourd’hui que je ne l’étais il y a quarante ans, mais c’est parce que j’ai atteint mes limites voilà quarante ans. Et personne ne peut dépasser ses limites.

Aphorismes - Irrévérance et liberté

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Prince and the Pauper + A Connecticut Yankee in   King Arthur's Court + Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" contains 3 books   in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and   detailed table of contents.
The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by Mark Twain first published in 1881   in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States.  Set in 1547, it tells the story of two   young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives   with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince   Edward, son of King Henry VIII.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by Mark Twain,   originally published in book form in 1896. The novel is a satirical comedy   that looks at 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through the eyes   of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after   a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in   time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur.   
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, published in 1896, is the remarkable   story of the saint's life as told by the fictional Sieur Louis de Conté,   Joan's page and secretary, in the form of a memoir written in the twilight of   life. The character has had the privilege of growing up with Joan of Arc,   accompanying her during the excitement and pageantry of her military   campaigns, and being present at each of her three trials. 
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark   Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom   Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the   latter often called "the Great American Novel."

The Prince and the Pauper + A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s Court + Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

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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