I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his father, which latter had it of HIS father, this last having in like manner had it of HIS father-and so on, back and still back, three hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it COULD have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

The Prince and the Pauper

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A Christmas Carol
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L.M. Montgomery
The Red Room
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The Osbornes' Christmas
Bertie's New Year
Ida's New Year Cake
The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road
Clorinda's Gifts
The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner
The Unforgotten One
Christmas at Red Butte
Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner
L. Frank Baum
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
Little Bun Rabbit
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Mark Twain
A Letter from Santa Claus
Louisa May Alcott
A Country Christmas
Cousin Tribulation's Story
What the Bell Saw and Said
Tilly's Christmas
Tessa's Surprises
Kate's Choice
The Boys' Joke, And Who Got The Best Of It
The Quiet Little Woman
Rosa's Tale
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A Christmas Turkey, And How It Came
A Merry Christmas
Leo Tolstoy
A Russian Christmas Party
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Bells
The Three Kings
Nikolai Gogol
Christmas Eve
William Dean Howells
Christmas Everyday
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Christmas in India
Elizabeth Harrison
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe
John Milton
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hans Christian Andersen
The Fir Tree
The Little Match Girl
Selma Lagerlof
A Christmas Guest
The Holy Night
The Legend of the Christmas Rose
Clement Moore
The Night Before Christmas
Henry van Dyke
The Other Wise Man
Beatrix Potter
The Tailor of Gloucester
Anton Chehov
Vanka
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Christmas by Injunction
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
A Chaparral Christmas Gift
An Unfinished Christmas Story
Hesba Stretton
The Christmas Child
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas at Sea
Markheim
Winter Time
Walter Scott
Christmas In The Olden Time
Alfred Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells
Abbie Farwell Brown
The Christmas Angel
Anthony Trollope
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Thomas Hardy
The Oxen
William Butler Yeats
The Magi
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Mahogany Tree
Charles Kingsley
Christmas Day
Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas
Emily Dickinson
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman
Willa Cather
The Burglar's Christmas
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Christmas-Box
Washington Irving
Christmas
The Stage-Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
The Christmas Dinner
George MacDonald
Christmas Day and Everyday
The Christmas Child
Christmas Meditation
A Christmas Prayer
A Christmas Carol
My Uncle Peter
Mary's Lullaby
Christmas-Day
The Gifts of the Child Christ
That Holy Thing
Christmas
Christmas Song of the Old Children
King Cole
A Song for Christmas
James Joyce
The Dead
Saki
Bertie's Christmas Eve
William Shakespeare
Song of the Holly
The Gracious Time
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christmas; or, The Good Fairy
The First Christmas of New England
Betty's Bright Idea
Christmas in Poganuc
Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant

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Le jeune samuel clemens, alias mark twain (1835-1910), rêvait de voyages fabuleux.
 En 1859, le voici à la barre sur son premier bateau pour sillonner le mississipi. voyage de milliers de kilomètres haut en couleur, parmi les écueils et les hauts-fonds, les sabotages et les vols, les escrocs et les hors-la-loi. dur métier que celui de pilote ! mais c'est aussi un métier de prince dans les paysages grandioses de l'amérique. la guerre de sécession obligera le futur écrivain à s'enfuir dans l'ouest, mais il gardera toujours pour le mississipi une nostalgie immense, au point de se choisir comme pseudonyme le cri de " mark twain ! ", qui signifie : " par deux brasses de fond ! "

La vie sur le mississippi i

Date de l'édition originale: 1905Collection: Collection d'auteurs étrangers

Un Pari de milliardaires et autres nouvelles

Amérique, vers 1840. Le jeune Tom Sawyer n'a qu'une idée en tête : faire l'école buissonnière et partir en quête d'un trésor caché. Avec son fidèle compagnon Huckleberry Finn, ils sont tour à tour pirates, aventuriers, cow-boys. La découverte d'un crime nocturne met leur courage et leur raison à l'épreuve.

Les aventures de Tom Sawyer - Cycle 3

Dans l'antique Cite de Londres, par un beau jour d'automne du second quart du seizieme siecle, naquit a une famille pauvre du nom de Canty un garcon dont elle n'avait que faire. Le meme jour un autre enfant anglais naissait a une famille riche du nom de Tudor, qui aurait pu difficilement se passer de lui. Toute l'Angleterre, d'ailleurs, le reclamait avec impatience. L'Angleterre l'avait si longtemps attendu, elle l'avait tant souhaite, elle avait tant prie Dieu de le lui accorder que, maintenant qu'il etait la, le peuple etait presque fou de contentement. Des gens qui se connaissaient a peine se sautaient au cou et s'embrassaient en pleurant. Tout le monde chomait. Grands et petits, riches et pauvres festoyaient, dansaient, chantaient, s'attendrissaient. Cela dura plusieurs jours et plusieurs nuits"

Le prince et le pauvre

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

Du Nevada à la Californie, de Saint-Louis à San Francisco, À la dure raconte sept années d'aventures burlesques et tumultueuses d'un pied-tendre absolument maladroit, le genre à déclencher un vaste incendie tandis qu'il se prépare juste à dîner au bord d'un lac, ou à être pris dans une tempête de neige et se préparer à y mourir alors qu'il se trouve à quelques mètres d'un refuge. Ode comique à la nature sauvage, livre effervescent, à la fois débridé et d'une maîtrise narrative absolue, voici le Far West du père du roman américain, Mark Twain, le maître de Hemingway et Faulkner, Dos Passos et Steinbeck !

A la dure

Join the mischievous Huck Finn and his runaway slave friend, Jim, on a daring escapade down the Mississippi River. Fleeing their troubled pasts, they encounter a world of danger and excitement, meeting eccentric characters and facing moral dilemmas along the way. This timeless coming-of-age tale explores friendship, freedom, and the complexities of society, with humor and heartwarming moments throughout. Follow Huck's thrilling journey as he learns the true meaning of compassion and courage, making "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" a captivating and enduring classic that captures the spirit of America's river-bound adventures. ABOUT THE AUTHORMark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, and passed away on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut. He is known to be one of the greatest writers in American literature and a pioneer of realistic fiction. Twain spent much of his youth along the Mississippi River, which deeply influenced his work. His love for travel and adventure shines through his writings, which are often infused with humor and satire. He is famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), considered masterpieces of American literature. Throughout his life, Twain worked in various occupations, including being an apprentice printer, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a miner. These experiences provided him with a wealth of material for his stories and helped shape his unique writing style. Twain was also a fervent social and political critic. He spoke out against slavery, imperialism, and social injustice, using his writing talent to expose the hypocrisies of his era's society. Throughout his career, Mark Twain wrote numerous articles, essays, and novels that enjoyed immense success. His writings have been translated into many languages and continue to be read and appreciated to this day. Mark Twain is considered one of the most influential writers in the history of American literature, and his literary legacy endures even today.

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