A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.

Aventures de Huckleberry Finn

« Quiconque essaiera de trouver un sens à ce récit sera poursuivi ; quiconque essaiera d'y trouver une morale sera banni ; quiconque essaiera d'y trouver une intrigue sera fusillé. » Voilà l'avertissement que l'auteur adresse au lecteur des Aventures de Huckleberry Finn (1884).
Et pourtant, lorsque Huck, l'ami de Tom Sawyer, descend le Mississippi en compagnie de Jim, un esclave en fuite, il est tiraillé par des injonctions morales contradictoires. Doit-il dénoncer Jim ? ou au contraire lui apporter son aide ? Tandis que les péripéties s'enchaînent le long du fleuve, le jeune garçon découvre la nature humaine dans toute sa noirceur.
À travers ce roman, considéré outre-Atlantique comme fondateur de la littérature américaine, Twain dénonce férocement les cruautés de son temps, face auxquelles il dépeint l'éveil d'une conscience.

Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn

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Le Rapt de l'éléphant blanc

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer est le premier roman que Mark Twain écrit seul. Il est publié en 1876, d'abord en Angleterre en juin, puis aux États-Unis en décembre.

Tom Sawyer est un orphelin d'une dizaine d'années qui vit sur les bords du Mississipi et cause bien des soucis à sa tante Molly. Pour les yeux de la jolie Becky, il fait les 400 coups et se retrouve plus souvent à vagabonder avec son ami Huckleberry que sur les bancs de l'école.

Les aventures de Tom Sawyer

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!"

Tom Sawyer

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain" is formatted   for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of Contents:
A Tale of Today
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The American Claimant
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
A Horse's Tale
The Mysterious Stranger
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 Complete 12 Novels of Mark Twain

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

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.

Aventures de Huckleberry Finn

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