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New York Times Bestseller!A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children's story is brought to life by Philip and Erin Stead, creators of the Caldecott Medal-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee. In a hotel in Paris one evening in 1879, Mark Twain sat with his young daughters, who begged their father for a story. Twain began telling them the tale of Johnny, a poor boy in possession of...

Una bizzarra coincidenza, una prodigiosa rassomiglianza, uno scambio di vestiti fatto per gioco da due ragazzi... Su tali semplici elementi è costruito questo celebre libro di Mark Twain, che attinge a un motivo ricorrente della narrativa universale: lo scambio di ruoli. È quanto fanno Edward, erede al trono d'Inghilterra, e il piccolo vagabondo Tom Canty, rischiando, senza volere, di non poter più tornare indietro, vittime di loschi traffican...

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I ricordi dell'infanzia e della giovinezza ispirarono a Mark Twain "Le avventure di Tom Sawyer", romanzo ambientato in un paesino sulle rive del Mississippi, simile a quello in cui l'autore visse i primi anni della sua vita: Hannibal, in Missouri, nel sud degli Stati Uniti, dove a quel tempo esisteva ancora la schiavitù. Nonostante sia passato molto tempo dal 1876, l'anno della sua pubblicazione, continua a essere una storia molto in voga tra ...

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Mark Twain's Sketches - New and Old is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newl...

Mark Twain's first attempt at historical fiction, "The Prince and the Pauper", was first published in 1881. It is a story set in the time of Prince Edward, of house Tudor, who at age nine would become King Edward VI. When young Prince Edward meets a Pauper, Tom Canty, who likes a lot like him, he convinces the two to switch clothes so that they can be mistaken for each other and end up switching places. While they play out their new roles, Pri...

First published in 1889, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was inspired by a dream in which the author, Mark Twain, imagined himself as knight in the time of chivalry. The book relates the tale of Hank Morgan, an engineer from 19th century Hartford Connecticut, who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. While there he uses his knowledge of modern technology to appear as though he is a magician. De...

Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried.

Two young men -- one a child of the London slums, the other an heir to the throne -- switch identities in this timeless novel about class and culture in sixteenth-century England.

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Concepito inizialmente come seguito delle "Avventure di Tom Sawyer", questo romanzo di Mark Twain, pubblicato nel 1884, acquista in corso d'opera dignità di vero capolavoro. Vi si narrano le picaresche avventure del giovane Huckleberry Finn, che si sottrae ai rischi della "civiltà" e dell'"educazione" insieme con lo schiavo fuggiasco Jim. A bordo di una zattera, i due discendono il Mississippi vivendo una sorta di idillio fluviale, continuamen...

Mark Twain (1835-1910, eigentlich Samuel Langhorne Clemens) ist weltweit einer der berühmtesten Autoren und vor allem durch die Bücher über die Abenteuer von Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn bekannt geworden.Aber auch seine Reiseberichte, Romane und Erzählungen bestechen mit Scharfzüngigkeit, Witz und Humor - und halten der damaligen Gesellschaft den Spiegel vor.Genießen Sie die Erzählkunst Mark Twains in 35 kurzweiligen Geschichten aus seinem ...

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For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con More... estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teat...

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Tom Sawyer, o rapazinho travesso criado por Mark Twain, tem marcado o imaginário infantil dos últimos 150 anos. Rebelde mas de bom coração, Tom é o pesadelo da sua tia Polly, com quem vive. Acompanhado pelo seu amigo huckleberry Finn, um rapazinho abadonado que vive nos matos, Tom vive aventuras incríveira que nos fazem sonhar com a liberdade junto da natureza. Sob a forma de romance juvenil, As Aventuras de Tom Sawyer constitui, na real...

Excerpt from Contes ChoisisLa vie aventureuse continue, Mark Twain part à Hawaï pour le compte d'un journal de Sacra mento. Puis il revient en Californie et donne des conférences sur son voyage. Il accompagne un pèlerinage en Terre Sainte, comme correspondant d'un journal. De ce voyage il rapporte un livre, Les Ingénus en voyage (the Innocents Abroad), qui assure sa célébrité. Puis, de nouveau, des conté renees. A ce moment, la situation de l'...

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