YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly-Tom's Aunt Polly, she is-and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

El príncipe y el mendigo, también traducida como Príncipe y mendigo es una novela escrita por Mark Twain. Fue publicada por primera vez en Canadá en 1881 antes de ser publicada en los Estados Unidos en 1882. Es la primera novela histórica del autor. Ambientada en 1547, cuenta la historia de dos niños de apariencia física idéntica: Tom Canty, un mendigo que vive con su padre cruel en Offal Court, Londres, y el príncipe Eduardo, hijo de Enrique VIII de Inglaterra.

El Principe y el Mendigo

Fils d'Henri VIII d'Angleterre, le prince de Galles rêve de courir en liberté et de se battre dans les rues de Londres avec les gamins de son âge. En même temps, dans un quartier sordide de la capitale anglaise, un petit pauvre rêve de devenir prince. Et si l'occasion était offerte aux deux enfants de réaliser leur rêve, chacun prenant la place de l'autre ?

Le Prince et le Pauvre - Texte abrégé

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!"

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

Ce roman raconte les peripeties de Tom Sawyer, garnement malicieux et superstitieux, accompagne de plusieurs de ses camarades, au premier rang desquels Huckleberry Finn et Joe Harper. La ville de Saint Petersburg, sur le Mississippi, est le theatre de ces aventures. Tom est eleve par sa tante Polly a la suite de la mort de ses parents alors que son ami Huck vit dans des tonneaux. L'oeuvre est composee de 35 chapitres et de cinq lignes narratives distinctes mais qui s'entremelent tout au long du roman.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (geboren 30. November 1835 in Florida, Missouri; gestorben 21. April 1910 in Redding, Connecticut) - besser bekannt unter seinem Pseudonym Mark Twain - war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Mark Twain ist vor allem als Autor der Bücher über die Abenteuer von Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn bekannt. Er war ein Vertreter des Literatur-Genres "amerikanischer Realismus" und ist besonders wegen seiner humoristischen, von Lokalkolorit und genauen Beobachtungen sozialen Verhaltens geprägten Erzählungen sowie aufgrund seiner scharfzüngigen Kritik an der amerikanischen Gesellschaft berühmt. In seinen Werken beschreibt er den alltäglichen Rassismus; seine Protagonisten durchschauen die Heuchelei und Verlogenheit der herrschenden Verhältnisse.

Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache

Début du 20e siècle : la campagne contre la gestion de l'Etat indépendant du Congo sous la souveraineté du roi Léopold II, bat son plein. Partie d'Angleterre, elle s'étend à l'Europe continentale et aux Etats-Unis. En France, Charles Péguy prend position. En Angleterre, Arthur Conan Doyle dénonce les conditions réservées aux indigènes dans la récolte du caoutchouc. Aux Etats-Unis, Mark Twain, l'auteur de Tom Sawyer, est sollicité pour écrire un pamphlet. Ce sera Le soliloque du roi Léopold, dans lequel le grand humoriste met en scène un monarque monologuant contre ces critiques et sur sa mission civilisatrice. Cette charge virulente et baroque est rééditée ici dans la traduction et avec une introduction de Jean-Pierre Orban qui resitue le Soliloque dans l'œuvre de Mark Twain et décrit le mouvement international ayant poussé Léopold II à céder le Congo à la  Belgique.

Le soliloque du roi Léopold

Beloved for more than a century, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and continues the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim as they travel the Mississippi river valley. Criticized for its colloquial language and use of racial stereotypes and slurs, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exposes and challenges racist attitudes in the Southern United States at the close of the 19th century. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in 1884, and is considered to be among the great American novels. It has been adapted for the stage and film, and has inspired many other literary and musical works. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank was unknown in Lakeside-unconfessed, anyway; everybody knew everybody and his dog, and a sociable friendliness was the prevailing atmosphere.

Saladin Foster was book-keeper in the principal store, and the only high-salaried man of his profession in Lakeside. He was thirty-five years old, now; he had served that store for fourteen years; he had begun in his marriage-week at four hundred dollars a year, and had climbed steadily up, a hundred dollars a year, for four years; from that time forth his wage had remained eight hundred-a handsome figure indeed, and everybody conceded that he was worth it.

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