«À l'école, Tom était devenu un héros. Il ne se donnait plus des airs de casseur d'assiettes ; il avait la démarche digne et fière d'un pirate qui sait que tous les yeux sont braqués sur lui. Il n'avait l'air ni de remarquer les regards ni d'entendre les conversations sur son passage, mais en réalité il buvait du petit lait.»

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

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

Le privilège de la tombe. Son occupant possède un privilège que n'exerce aucune personne vivante : la liberté de parole. Non pas que l'homme vivant en soit dépourvu. mais dans la mesure où il ne le possède qu'il titre formel et qu'il estime avoir mieux à faire que de s'en servir, il ne paraît pas sérieux de considérer qu'il est réellement en sa possession. En tant que privilège actif, il peut être rangé à côté de celui de commettre un meurtre : nous pouvons l'exercer si nous acceptons d'en assumer les conséquences. Le meurtre est interdit en théorie comme en pratique : la liberté de parole est autorisée en théorie mais interdite en pratique. Le meurtre est parfois puni, la liberté de parole toujours quand elle est perpétrée.

La Liberté de Parole

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!"

La Vie sur le Mississippi, Tome 2

Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but he became a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies, and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative, and social criticism in Huckleberry Finn. He was a master of rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language. 

A complete bibliography of Twain's works is nearly impossible to compile because of the vast number of pieces he wrote (often in obscure newspapers) and his use of several different pen names. 

This book contains more than 30 of the most famous and significant works of Mark Twain.

Novels

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Stories

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man

A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco

Answers to Correspondents

Among the Fenians

The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief

Curing a Cold

An Inquiry about Insurances

Literature in the Dry Diggings

"After" Jenkins

Lucretia Smith's Soldier

The Killing of Julius Cæsar "Localized"

An Item Which the Editor Himself Could Not Understand

Among the Spirits

Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington

A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood

A Page from a Californian Almanac

Information for the Million

The Launch of the Steamer Capital

Origin of Illustrious Men

Advice for Good Little Girls

Concerning Chambermaids

Remarkable Instances of Presence of Mind

Honored as a Curiosity in Honolulu

The Steed "Oahu"

A Strange Dream

Short and Singular Rations

A Letter from Santa Claus

What Stumped the Blue Jays

Essay

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

30+ Mark Twain Collection. Novels. Stories. Essays - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Celebrated Jumping Frog and others

"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!"

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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 d'un certain antagonisme culturel (voire plus...) entre une certaine vieille Europe et un certain nouveau Monde...

Un Yankee à la cour du roi Arthur

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...

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