Tom n'aime rien tant que l'ecole buissonniere, les expeditions avec ce voyou de Huck, la vie de pirates sur une ile du Mississippi, sans oublier la petite Becky. Mais sa tante Polly ne voit pas cela d'un tres bon il ! Et si elle savait que Tom et Huck, caches dans un cimetiere pendant une terrible nuit, ont vu tuer un homme."

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girl-a case of love at first sight and a precipitate marriage; a marriage bitterly opposed by the girl's widowed father.

Jacob Fuller, the bridegroom, is twenty-six years old, is of an old but unconsidered family which had by compulsion emigrated from Sedgemoor, and for King James's purse's profit, so everybody -some maliciously- the rest merely because they believed it. The bride is nineteen and beautiful. She is intense, high-strung, romantic, immeasurably proud of her Cavalier blood, and passionate in her love for her young husband. For its sake she braved her father's displeasure, endured his reproaches, listened with loyalty unshaken to his warning predictions, and went from his house without his blessing, proud and happy in the proofs she was thus giving of the quality of the affection which had made its home in her heart.

A Double Barrelled Detective Story

"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!"

The Adventures of 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

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 ! "

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La Vie sur le Mississippi, Tome 2

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!"

Nouvelle titre du premier livre publié par Mark Twain, "The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County" rédigée en 1865) témoigne de la liberté qui se manifeste dans la multitude de récits brefs que l'essayiste et romancier américain a donnés tout au long de sa carrière aux journaux. Un vieil homme raconte avec un sérieux de patriarche une histoire de bêtes et de paris qui ne semble jamais devoir s'arrêter. L'anecdote vaut pour elle-même, le portrait aussi. Il n'est pas question de faire de la littérature ; il suffit de savoir, entre fiction et document, recueillir l'instantané dans les mots justes, aptes à recréer les choses telles qu'elles ont été. La grenouille de Twain est, dans la bouche de ce bon vieux raseur de Simon Wheeler, de celles qui pourraient occuper bien des parlottes d'après dîner, absurdes mais peut-être moins qu'il y paraît puisqu'en elles se love quelque chose de bien vivant. Edition bilingue. Traduction de Timothée Tosti et Emmanuel Malherbet.

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