These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the effect. I have noted elsewhere how he always held that the actor doubled the value of the author's words; and he was a great actor as well as a great author. He was a most consummate actor, with this difference from other actors, that he was the first to know the thoughts and invent the fancies to which his voice and action gave the color of life. Representation is the art of other actors; his art was creative as well as representative; it was nothing at second hand.

Mark Twain's Speeches

À Londres, le Prince de Galles, fils du Roi Henri VIII, rêve de liberté : comme ce doit être gai de pouvoir courir dans les rues et se battre avec les autres garçons ! Dans la même ville, Tom Canty, un garçon de famille pauvre, ne rêve que d'échapper à la misère... Quand, par la main du destin, ces deux garçons se croisent, ils ont une idée de génie : et si on changeait de place ? 



Mark Twain est le nom de plume de Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), écrivain, essayiste et humoriste américain. Il devient imprimeur suite au décés de son père puis exerce le métier de journaliste, qui le mène à voyager en Europe en tant que correspondant de presse. Son enfance au Missouri a grandement influencé ses oeuvres, considérées comme des classiques de la littérature de jeunesse. Ses histoires ont été adaptées aux plusieurs médias, notamment le film « Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn » (1994), avec Elijah Wood, et l'animation Disney « Le Prince et le Pauvre » (1990).

Le Prince et le Pauvre

It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions. It was so proud of it, and so anxious to insure its perpetuation, that it began to teach the principles of honest dealing to its babies in the cradle, and made the like teachings the staple of their culture thenceforward through all the years devoted to their education. Also, throughout the formative years temptations were kept out of the way of the young people, so that their honesty could have every chance to harden and solidify, and become a part of their very bone. The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy, and affected to sneer at Hadleyburg's pride in it and call it vanity; but all the same they were obliged to acknowledge that Hadleyburg was in reality an incorruptible town; and if pressed they would also acknowledge that the mere fact that a young man hailed from Hadleyburg was all the recommendation he needed when he went forth from his natal town to seek for responsible employment.

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

The innocents abroad

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Non-Fiction Writings of Mark Twain" is   formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of   contents.
This collection comprises six non-fiction works Mark Twain published over   the course of his life.
Table of Contents:
Old Times on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi
Christian Science
Queen Victoria's Jubilee
My Platonic Sweetheart
Editorial Wild Oats
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an   American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of   Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The   Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

The Complete Non-Fiction Writings of Mark Twain

Tom n'aime rien tant que l'école buissonnière, les expéditions avec ce voyou de Huck, la vie de pirates sur une île du Mississippi, sans oublier la petite Becky. Mais sa tante Polly ne voit pas cela d'un très bon oeim ! Et si elle apprenait que Tom et Huck, cachés dans un cimetière pendant une terrible nuit, ont assisté au meutre d'un homme ?

Les aventures de Tom Sawyer

"The Awful German Language" is a humorous examination of the German language and the frustrations a native English speaker may have when learning it.



It is an essay published as Appendix D of "A Tramp Abroad" by Mark Twain.

The Awful German Language

This   carefully crafted ebook: "On Masturbation: "Some Thoughts on the Science   of Onanism" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed   table of contents.
One evening in Paris in 1879, The Stomach Club, a society of American   writers and artists, gathered to drink well, to eat a good dinner and hear an   address by Mark Twain.  He was among   friends and, according to the custom of the club, he delivered a humorous   talk on a subject hardly ever mentioned in public in that day and age.  After the meeting, he preserved the   manuscript among his papers.  It was   finally printed in a pamphlet limited to 50 copies 64 years later. The speech   satirically dealt with masturbation and the bane it is on our society.  His remarks rubbed Victorian society the   wrong way, and were censored for a century. 
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910),   quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The   Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

On Masturbation: "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism"

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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