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.

Les aventures d'Huckleberry Finn

Este libro nos lleva a conocer la serie de aventuras que vive un niño cuya gran imaginación lo hace enfrentar grandes peligros.La simpatía de Tom Sawyer, el personaje principal, hace que el lector disfrute cada una de las ocurrencias y diabluras a las que este pequeño arrastra muchas veces a sus dos mejores amigos: Joe Harper y Huckleberry Finn, un niño vagabundo que pese a saber enfrentarse a la vida por sí solo, ya que fue abandonado por sus padres, se caracteriza por su gran inocencia, de la que muchas veces Tom se aprovecha.Conozcamos las peripecias de Tom y sus amigos.

Les aventures de Tom Sawyer

"Parfois, je me sens, avouait Mark Twain, comme la personne saine d'esprit dans une communauté de fous ; parfois, je me sens comme le seul aveugle là où tout le monde voit, le seul sauvage tâtonnant dans le collège des savants, et toujours pendant le service, je me sens comme un hérétique au paradis." Plus qu'au paradis, on brûle d'aller en enfer pour retrouver un écrivain assurément en bonne compagnie. Sur terre l'auteur, si connu pour ses romans à l'usage de la jeunesse, n'avait pas cessé de décocher ses flèches sur une Amérique détraquée, fausse, détestable. Inépuisable était son carquois de traits acérés contre, parmi d'autres, celui qui peut brailler le plus fort sans savoir ce qu'il braille.

Avec son contemporain Ambrose Bierce, il a fait partie de ces vigies qui scrutent les travers d'un homme, des hommes, de leur société et relèvent non sans un humour acidulé tout ce qui pouvait empoisonner l'air de leur temps. 

Un bon siècle plus tard, dans ce monde terriblement enclin au mensonge, les aphorismes lucides de Mark Twain ont-ils vieilli, l'air de notre temps est-il plus pur ?

Alain Blanc.

L'esprit et l'humour

Mark Twain is one of America's most famous and best-loved writers. He wrote about every important subject of his time. Twain's stories are usually amusing but with a serious message too. You will read about people's hopes and fears, happiness and terrible sadness-and wonderful practical jokes!

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Eseldorf, Autriche, en 1590. Trois amis, Nikolaus, Seppi et Theodor, rencontrent un étranger. Lorsqu'ils apprennent qu'il est un ange nommé Satan, comme son oncle déchu, leur premier sentiment est la crainte. Ils se rassurent peu à peu à son contact et bientôt sa compagnie leur devient indispensable tant sa présence est apaisante. Esprit divin, Satan ne peut faire ni le bien ni le mal. Il ne peut que transmettre la vérité et agir en toute objectivité ce qui choque souvent ses interlocuteurs. Pour lui, les hommes sont aussi insignifiants que peut l'être « une araignée pour un éléphant ». Il ne les aime ni ne les déteste, il est indifférent.Au gré de ses visites, l'ange leur transmet un enseignement, leur ouvrant les yeux sur le genre humain, sa lâcheté et sa vanité et surtout sur ce qui le différencie des animaux : le sens moral, un sens qui permet de distinguer le bien du mal, avec la liberté de choisir entre l'un ou l'autre. Les trois garçons sont les seuls à connaître l'identité de l'Etranger. Néanmoins, chacune de ses visites va bouleverser la vie des habitants d'Eseldorf.

L'Étranger Mystérieux

All of Mark Twain's classic American adventure stories featuring his most beloved characters, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are brought together in the Ultimate Tom Sawyer and Friends Collection. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom, Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Becky find themselves in amusing and sometimes dangerous adventures. The friends' mischief continues in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Detective, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are considered to be among the greatest American novels, and have captured the hearts of readers, old and young alike, since they were first published over a century ago. Twain's timeless stories have been adapted numerous times for stage and film, and have inspired other literary and musical works. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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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!"

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