Que faire maintenant ? Après avoir bu sans trembler le café du terrible Stade, affronter les Mormons, après avoir tâté de la rude vie des pionniers sur les mines du Comstock Lode, connu la griserie des grandes spéculations, voilà notre gaillard plus pauvre que jamais. Que faire maintenant ? Eh bien, il lui reste à devenir Mark Twain. Ce qui va prendre encore quelques mois, du Nevada à la Californie, et lui vaudra son content d'aventures burlesques, tragiques, émouvantes. Adieu donc (enfin, presque) les rêves de fortune, journalisme à nous deux ! Et l'on peut soupçonner par avance que pour ce qui sera d'inventer des scoops - hyperboliques, cet aimable jeune homme ne craindra pas grand monde. Bientôt c'est tout le Comstock Lode puis la Californie qui se tiennent les côtes de rire, en attenda

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Les aventures de Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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Tomy Sawyer est un garçon orphelin, d'âge changeant. Mark Twain ne paraît pas s'être soucié de ce point : dans un chapitre, Tom perd une dent, alors que son amour pour Becky le situe plutôt au début de la préadolescence, qui ne pense qu'à faire l'école buissonnière avec Huckleberry Finn et Joe Harper, à s'identifier aux personnages de ses romans d'aventures préférés et à montrer son phallus à ses camarades. Amoureux de Becky, il n'a de cesse de l'impressionner, et lorsqu'il se retrouve perdu avec elle dans une grotte où ils sont bien près de mourir, il fait preuve de courage et fait tout son possible pour la consoler alors que lui-même est terrorisé. Source : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer

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Les aventures de Tom Sawyer

This is Mark Twain's imaginative series of diary entries by Adam and Eve. At first, Adam is puzzled by this new arrival, Eve, in the garden, and he is suspicious of her disturbing appetite for fruit. Eve, believing herself to be some sort of experiment, is curious about another experiment in the garden, perhaps some sort of reptile or possibly architecture. Eve gives names to everything, much to Adam's annoyance. He tries to ignore her, so she seeks companionship among the animals particularly with a certain snake. Adam and Eve grow to love each other and, in the end, an elderly Adam is filled with a realization of that love as he stands at Eve's grave.

La Vie Privée D'adam Et Eve

Du Nevada à la Californie, de Saint-Louis à San Francisco, À la dure raconte sept années d'aventures burlesques et tumultueuses d'un pied-tendre absolument maladroit, le genre à déclencher un vaste incendie tandis qu'il se prépare juste à dîner au bord d'un lac, ou à être pris dans une tempête de neige et se préparer à y mourir alors qu'il se trouve à quelques mètres d'un refuge. Ode comique à la nature sauvage, livre effervescent, à la fois débridé et d'une maîtrise narrative absolue, voici le Far West du père du roman américain, Mark Twain, le maître de Hemingway et Faulkner, Dos Passos et Steinbeck !

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Toute la littérature moderne américaine découle d'un livre de Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, a écrit Ernest Hemingway. L'humour également. On peut en effet affirmer que Mark Twain est le premier humoriste moderne que la littérature ait engendré. Cet homme qui avait la secrète impression d'être un "mystérieux et peut-être surnaturel visiteur venant d'autres lieux" pouvait considérer la chose la plus banale, puis en donner d'extravagantes descriptions. Il s'en priva d'autant moins qu'il eut une vie particulièrement aventureuse et fit preuve d'une exceptionnelle soif de vivre avant d'écrire les aventures de Tom Sawyer et d'Huckleberry Finn. À douze ans, ce Charles Dickens américain que l'on compare aujourd'hui à Herman Melville, était déjà apprenti typographe. Plus tard il devint aventurier, navigateur sur le Mississippi, chercheur d'or, avant de devenir journaliste, écrivain et grand voyageur devant l'Eternel. Sa vieillesse fut marquée par une série de catastrophes financières et familiales qui le marquèrent durement et lui firent jeter son masque d'humoriste parfois tenté de jouer au bouffon pour les masses. Cependant, même quand il nous entretient de sujets futiles, même quand il passe d'une idée superficielle à une autre, il reste un fabuleux jongleur verbal, un des grands maîtres de la prose américaine qu'il révolutionna avec une parfaite désinvolture. Classique, plagié, imité, parodié, Mark Twain reste inamovible: le temps qui détruit les modes ne peut rien contre son oeuvre. Les deux nouvelles réunies dans ce recueil, Le journalisme dans le Tennessee et Comment je devins directeur d'un journal agricole, sont suivies d'une brève biographie de l'écrivain.

Vive le journalisme !

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies" contains 4 Mark Twain Biographies in 1 book and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he'd passed his 70th year, that a lot of the material might be OK to publish before his departure. These chapters were published in serial form in the North American Review during 1906-1907. While much of the material consists of stories about the people, places and incidents of his long life, there're also several sections from his daughter.
In My Mark Twain, Howells pens a literary memoir that includes such fascinating scenes as their meetings with former president Ulysses Grant who was then writing the classic autobiography that Twain would underwrite in the largest publishing deal until that time. But it is also notable for its affectionate descriptions of his friend's family life during Howell's many visits to the Twain residences in Hartford and Stormfield.
Mark Twain A Biography and The Boys' Life Of Mark Twain written by Albert Bigelow Paine, are an invaluable resource to better understand Twain, the stories behind his stories and his life with those he loved and with whom he worked. 


  Table of Contents:
Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain  
My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells'  
Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine  
The Boys' Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine


  
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910), quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham. 
Albert Bigelow Paine (1861 - 1937) was Mark Twain's biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biography, for a few years before Twain's death in 1910.

The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Roughing It" is formatted for your eReader with a   functional and detailed table of contents.
Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, Roughing It follows the   travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861-1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his   brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada   Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary   to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for   many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early   adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting,   real-estate speculation, a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and his   beginnings as a writer.
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910),   quintessential American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author wrote The   Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Roughing It

SATURDAY.-I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should remember it. It could be, of course, that it did happen, and that I was not noticing. Very well; I will be very watchful now, and if any day-before-yesterdays happen I will make a note of it. It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM-an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more.

Eve's Diary

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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