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

These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the effect. I have noted elsewhere how he always held that the actor doubled the value of the author's words; and he was a great actor as well as a great author. He was a most consummate actor, with this difference from other actors, that he was the first to know the thoughts and invent the fancies to which his voice and action gave the color of life. Representation is the art of other actors; his art was creative as well as representative; it was nothing at second hand.

Mark Twain's Speeches

Tom Sawyer est publié en 1876 et remporte un succès immédiat. Son auteur, Mark Twain vient du sud des États-Unis, et c'est dans ce contexte régional et culturel qu'il situe les histoires de deux jeunes amis, Tom Sawyer et Huckleberry Finn, témoins malgré eux d'un meurtre ! Sur les bords du Mississipi, les deux garçons vont apprendre le courage et l'amitié.

Tom Sawyer

Anthology of Christmas Stories is a unique collection of Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.
Contents:

Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes

G.K. Chesterton
A Christmas Carol

L.M. Montgomery
The Red Room
A Christmas Mistake
A Christmas Inspiration
The Josephs' Christmas
Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
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

Mark Twain
A Letter from Santa Claus

Louisa May Alcott
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
The Holy Night

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

Hesba Stretton
The Christmas Child

Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows

Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas at Sea

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Christmas Fancies

C. W. Stubbs
Twas Jolly, Jolly Wat

Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas

Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Christmas Folksong

William Topaz McGonagall
A Tale of Christmas Eve

Emily Dickinson
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman

50+ Masterpieces you have to read before you die. Christmas Stories and Poems

Mark Twain nous décrit les frasques et mésaventures de Tom Sawyer, jeune garçon à l'esprit vif et débordant d'imagination, élevé par sa tante, au bord du Mississipi. 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

Aujourd'hui un algérien sur deux n'a pas connu les années Boumediene. Cependant, l'homme au cigare et au burnous fait l'objet d'un vrai mythe, d'une réelle sacralisation collective. Il est le seul ancien chef d'Etat dont les portraits ornent encore les administrations, les boutiques et les casernes. Au fur et à mesure que la crise économique et politique du pays s'aggrave, le retour vers le passé, devient une sorte de thérapie collective. La nostalgie conjure les effrois du présent. L'invocation des morts répare et fait oublier la déchéance des vivants. Mieux, plus l'ère Boumediene s'éloigne dans le temps, plus son image deviendra idyllique. Mohamed kacimi a tenu, pour la réalisation de cet ouvrage, à solliciter des auteurs qui ont vécu adultes, ou enfants cette époque. Il ne s'agissait ni de faire le procès des années Boumediene, ni d'en accentuer l'hagiographie. La démarche ne vise ni le réquisitoire, ni le panégyrique, mais le témoignage tout simplement. Chaque auteur se devait de raconter comment il a vécu cette période, enfant ou adulte, ce qu'il en a retenu, ce qu'il en garde comme bonheurs ou blessures, amours ou haines, réussite ou faillite. Ce volume est conçu donc comme un devoir de transmission.

Les aventures de Tom Sawyer

L'insolence de Mark Twain (1835-1910) c'est celle de la jeunesse. Jeunesse d'une nation, jeunesse d'une langue qu'il aide à forger, jeunesse d'une culture qui conquiert son indépendance. Ce recueil, composé des textes « Comment raconter une histoire drôle », « Le moment crucial de ma vie », les « Journaux d'Adam » et « d'Ève », témoigne de l'expérience d'écriture de Twain avec toute son intelligence et son humour si caractéristique. L'auteur y dépeint ce monde de l'enfance où la langue s'invente et où Twain devient Twain. Ces textes courts, d'un humour mordant, forment une introduction originale à l'ouvre de Mark Twain et tracent le portrait d'une Amérique en train de naître où tout est encore possible.

Comment raconter une histoire

La Vie Sur Le Mississippi, Tome 1

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!"

Il diario di Adamo ed Eva

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