La Vie Sur Le Mississippi, Tome 1

Volume 2 A la recherche du trésorTom Sawyer est né sur les rives du fleuve Mississipi. Il a le sens de l'amitié et le goût de la liberté  : il marche toujours pieds nus, se débrouille pour faire l'école buissonnière afin de rejoindre son meilleur ami  : Huck et vivre de supers aventures. Ils adorent jouer aux pirates sur une île du Mississipi  !Le vieux Muff, dont ils sauvent la vie, leur parle d'un fabuleux trésor caché dans la région.

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Dans la merveilleuse traduction du "Prince des humoristes", Gabriel de Lautrec, voici presque dix contes du précurseur de l'humour américain, celui qui a inventé un ton, un style, donné ses lettres de noblesse à la langue populaire, Mark Twain, génie pince-sans-rire qui nous fait sourire plus de cent ans après sa mort avec ses personnages entreprenants dépassés par les événements qu'ils ont engendrés. "Enfiler des détails incongrus et absurdes sans but, et ne pas avoir l'air de s'apercevoir que ce sont des absurdités, telle est la base de l'art américain", écrivait-il ; telle est sa manière à lui surtout qui enchaîne avec une vivacité primesautière les histoires les plus burlesques sur le ton le plus sérieux. L'aspect exaspérant de la vie justifie qu'on ne cesse d'en rire. L'échec est bien plus garanti que le succès, les parties plus souvent perdues que victorieuses, alors autant s'en réjouir, pour se gausser... ou se hausser...

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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

Le Journal d'Eve et d'Adam est une œuvre singulière, débordante d'humanité ; d'une humanité qui se construit, de celle définie par le regard croisé d'une Femme et d'un Homme, prototypes incarnés des sentiments les plus communs, vierges de toutes malignités et d'une naïveté touchante.L'élégance de style et l'humour tranche sur l'absence d'atavisme, le primitivisme originel des deux personnages et leur soif irrépressible de découverte du Monde et de l'Autre. En quelques pages, l'auteur restitue deux psychologies contradictoires, sexuées, qui pourtant, au terme d'errements et de doutes partagés, triomphent de leurs natures et se révèlent être définitivement complémentaires.

Journal d'Adam et journal d'Eve

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!"

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

This book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive. Yet notwithstanding it is only a record of a pic-nic, it has a purpose, which is to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who traveled in those countries before him. I make small pretense of showing anyone how he ought to look at objects of interest beyond the sea-other books do that, and therefore, even if I were competent to do it, there is no need.

I offer no apologies for any departures from the usual style of travel-writing that may be charged against me-for I think I have seen with impartial eyes, and I am sure I have written at least honestly, whether wisely or not.

In this volume I have used portions of letters which I wrote for the Daily Alta California, of San Francisco, the proprietors of that journal having waived their rights and given me the necessary permission. I have also inserted portions of several letters written for the New York Tribune and the New York Herald.

La Vie Sur Le Mississippi, Tome 1

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