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

Mark Twain nous décrit les frasques et mésaventures de Tom Sawyer, un petit garçon d'une dizaine d'années à l'esprit vif et débordant d'imagination. La ville de Saint Petersburg, sur le Mississippi, est le théâtre de ces aventures. Tom et son demi-frère Sidsont élevé par sa tante Polly à la suite de la mort de ses parents. 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...

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Prince and the Pauper + A Connecticut Yankee in   King Arthur's Court + Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" contains 3 books   in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and   detailed table of contents.
The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by Mark Twain first published in 1881   in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States.  Set in 1547, it tells the story of two   young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives   with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince   Edward, son of King Henry VIII.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by Mark Twain,   originally published in book form in 1896. The novel is a satirical comedy   that looks at 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through the eyes   of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after   a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in   time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur.   
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, published in 1896, is the remarkable   story of the saint's life as told by the fictional Sieur Louis de Conté,   Joan's page and secretary, in the form of a memoir written in the twilight of   life. The character has had the privilege of growing up with Joan of Arc,   accompanying her during the excitement and pageantry of her military   campaigns, and being present at each of her three trials. 
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 Prince and the Pauper + A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s Court + Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

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

Tom et Huck sont appelés en Arkansas au secours de leur oncle Silas, persécuté par son voisin. Lors de leur descente du Mississipi, ils croisent un étrange passager, poursuivi par ses propres complices auxquels il a dérobé une paire de diamants... Une double enquête commence pour nos deux héros : retrouver les diamants et élucider un meurtre commis la nuit même de leur arrivée chez l'oncle Silas. Le temps presse car le malheureux s'est accusé du meurtre et comparaît bientôt au tribunal du pays... La langue de Twain est ici particulièrement savoureuse. La construction très vivante de l'oeuvre, qui culmine avec les morceaux d'anthologie du procès, ménage de vraies surprises et joue avec espièglerie sur le suspense. On rit souvent, et même de très bon coeur, avec ces enfants terribles qui appellent un mort le " Décidé " ou témoignent sous " sermon "...

Tom Sawyer détective

You have heard from a great many people who did something in the war; is it not fair and right that you listen a little moment to one who started out to do something in it, but didn't? Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, and then stepped out again, permanently. These, by their very numbers, are respectable, and are therefore entitled to a sort of voice, -not a loud one, but a modest one; not a boastful one, but an apologetic one. They ought not to be allowed much space among better people-people who did something-I grant that; but they ought at least to be allowed to state why they didn't do anything, and also to explain the process by which they didn't do anything. Surely this kind of light must have a sort of value.

Merry Tales

Sur les rives du Mississippi, Tom Sawyer et ses amis se lancent dans l'aventure.Puis une nuit fatidique dans le cimeti�re, ils sont t�moins d'un meurtre. Les gar�ons font un serment de sang pour ne jamais r�v�ler le secret, et ils s'enfuient pour devenir des pirates � la recherche d'un tr�sor cach�. Mais quand Tom est pi�g� dans une grotte, peut-il s'en sortir indemne?

Aventures de Huckleberry Finn

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