"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

Shortly after his inglorious "military career" in a Confederate militia, as related in "A Private History of a Campaign That Failed," Mark Twain "lit out for the Territories" when his brother was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada. The result was one of the greatest books in the literature of the American West, full of first-hand accounts of cowboys, miners, roughnecks, and assorted colorful characters as only Mark Twain could describe them.

A la dure 1: Dans les mines d'argenr du Névada

Que faire maintenant ? Après avoir vécu mille aventures comme pilote sur le Mississippi (La Vie sur le Mississippi, Payot), fui la guerre de Sécession, traversé la Prairie, tâté de la rude vie des chercheurs d'or (À la dure, Payot), voilà le jeune Samuel Clemens, alias Mark Twain, de nouveau sans le sou, à New York. Une proposition de l'Alta California vient lui sauver la mise : suivre pour ses lecteurs le premier voyage touristique organisé depuis l'Amérique. Et c'est ainsi que Mark Twain, qui rêvait enfant d'explorer l'Amazone, s'embarque le 8 juin 1867 sur le Quaker City, direction l'Europe. Au programme : les Açores, Gibraltar, la France, l'Italie, la Grèce, Constantinople, la Crimée, Smyrne, la Terre Sainte et l'Égypte... Mark Twain, l'homme de l'Ouest, face à la vieille Europe ! Le choc va faire des étincelles. Car, l'oeil féroce et la langue bien pendue, il n'est pas disposé à s'en laisser compter et campe fièrement sur ses valeurs d'homme de la frontière. Ce qui nous vaut un assez étonnant feu d'artifice de blagues énormes, de descriptions décapantes, d'anecdotes cocasses et de réflexions plus sérieuses qu'on n'imagine d'abord - avec, en prime, quelques ânes, des chameaux et une course échevelée à travers l'Europe, à la recherche d'un fantomatique morceau de savon... Le succès du Voyage des innocents fut immense dès sa parution en 1869 - sans doute parce que s'y marquait, symboliquement, une inversion du regard entre Vieux et Nouveau Monde. En ce sens, Mark Twain est bien, comme l'écrivait Hemingway, le père du roman américain, le premier à le fonder, sans plus de références à l'Europe, sur les traditions et les valeurs de l'Amérique.

Le Voyage des Innocents

En 1879, dans un hôtel parisien, les filles de Mark Twain, Susy et Clara, montrent un dessin extrait d'un magazine à leur célèbre papa et le supplient d'inventer une histoire.C'est ainsi qu'est né Johnny, jeune garçon démuni entraîné malgré lui dans une quête pour retrouver un prince disparu.Les notes de cette histoire inachevée sont confiées à Philip Stead. Il la termine et, ce faisant, redonne vie à Mark Twain en imaginant des échanges (parfois hilarants !) avec l'illustre auteur. Quant aux magnifiques illustrations d'Erin Stead, elles accompagnent cette belle fable sociale avec subtilité et élégance.

L'Enlèvement du prince oléomargarine

I racconti che compongono Il Diario di Adamo ed Eva, così divertenti e ispirati, non è un caso forse che siano stati scritti proprio nello stesso periodo in cui furono concepite le pagine di Huckleberry Finn, il capolavoro di Twain, anche se poi, pur molto famoso, stranamente riuscì a pubblicarli solo anni dopo, e solo come opuscolo omaggio per promuovere il turismo alle cascate del Niagara, in prossimità delle quali, a Buffalo per la precisione, Twain è costretto nel libro, appunto, a spostare nientemeno che l'Eden... Un racconto divertente di lenta scoperta dell'altrui sesso condotta dal primo uomo e dalla prima donna della Terra. Una nuova edizione tutta da collezionare con una traduzione rieditata, splendide illustrazioni inedite e una prefazione d'eccezione.

Il diario di Adamo ed Eva

The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girl-a case of love at first sight and a precipitate marriage; a marriage bitterly opposed by the girl's widowed father.

Jacob Fuller, the bridegroom, is twenty-six years old, is of an old but unconsidered family which had by compulsion emigrated from Sedgemoor, and for King James's purse's profit, so everybody -some maliciously- the rest merely because they believed it. The bride is nineteen and beautiful. She is intense, high-strung, romantic, immeasurably proud of her Cavalier blood, and passionate in her love for her young husband. For its sake she braved her father's displeasure, endured his reproaches, listened with loyalty unshaken to his warning predictions, and went from his house without his blessing, proud and happy in the proofs she was thus giving of the quality of the affection which had made its home in her heart.

A Double Barrelled Detective Story

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

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!"

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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