« La plupart des aventures racontées dans ce livre ont réellement eu lieu. J’en ai vécu une ou deux ; je dois les autres à mes camarades d’école. Huck Finn est un personnage réel ; Tom Sawyer également, mais lui est un mélange de trois garçons que j’ai bien connus. Il est, en quelque sorte, le résultat d’un travail d’architecte. »Les aventures de Tom Sawyer est le plus célèbre des romans de Twain, et aussi son plus grand succès de librairie, de son vivant jusqu'au XXIe siècle. Considéré comme un classique de la littérature de jeunesse, Mark Twain le qualifie de « roman pour enfants pour adultes ».

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer

La vie sur le mississipi 1

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (geboren 30. November 1835 in Florida, Missouri; gestorben 21. April 1910 in Redding, Connecticut) - besser bekannt unter seinem Pseudonym Mark Twain - war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Mark Twain ist vor allem als Autor der Bücher über die Abenteuer von Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn bekannt. Er war ein Vertreter des Literatur-Genres "amerikanischer Realismus" und ist besonders wegen seiner humoristischen, von Lokalkolorit und genauen Beobachtungen sozialen Verhaltens geprägten Erzählungen sowie aufgrund seiner scharfzüngigen Kritik an der amerikanischen Gesellschaft berühmt. In seinen Werken beschreibt er den alltäglichen Rassismus; seine Protagonisten durchschauen die Heuchelei und Verlogenheit der herrschenden Verhältnisse.

Der amerikanische Prätendent

Ce bon vieux livre de médecine ? Le plus sûr moyen d'envoyer des générations entières engraisser l'herbe des cimetières ! Et que penser de ces milliardaires qui décident de voir si on peut vivre un mois entièrement à crédit ? Vous croisez l'ami auquel vous étiez en train de penser, est-ce une simple coïncidence ou une manifestation de «télégraphie mentale» ? Vous aimez les histoires cocasses et surprenantes ? Mark Twain est l'auteur qu'il vous faut !

Un majestueux fossile littéraire et autres nouvelles

Vers 1845, à Saint Petersbourg, une petite ville du Missouri, le jeune Tom Sawyer mène la vie des garçons de son âge. Il joue des farces à sa tutrice Tante Polly, à l'instituteur, à ses camarades. Aux leçons de l'école ou de l'église, il préfère les jeux dans la foret et les escapades dans l'île Jackson. Or, l'enfant polisson et son ami Huckleberry Finn rencontrent bientôt l'aventure : meurtre nocturne dans un cimetière, enfermement dans un labyrinthe souterrain, chasse au trésor, alors qu'à tout instant menace la terrible figure de Joe l'Indien et qu'une histoire d'amour s'ébauche entre Tom et Becky, la fille du juge Thatcher...

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

Un choix de 22 nouvelles du génial humoriste américain.On croisera une grenouille de compétition, une montre hystérique, un fantôme maladroit et encombrant, une dinde facétieuse, une foule de personnages pittoresques, de situations absurdes nées de l'imagination excentrique de l'auteur, qui prouve, avec ce choix de vingt-deux nouvelles, qu'il est un humoriste d'une étonnante modernité.

Nouvelles du Mississippi et d'ailleurs

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."

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