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Ambientato agli inizi dell'Ottocento, il romanzo è un fedele ritratto della società e delle tradizioni del Sud degli Stati Uniti, superstizioni, usanze e una certa dose di razzismo compresi. Tom Sawyer è un ragazzino vivace e irrequieto, ma anche furbo e molto simpatico. Ha la straordinaria capacità di ingannare chiunque pur di raggiungere i propri scopi e ne combina di tutti i colori alla povera zia Polly, che lo ha adottato dopo la morte dei...

Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huc...

... era preciso aprovechar la poca luz del día que quedaba para disponer las cosas y partir. Luego se escurrieron fuera de la casa, en las crecientes sombras del anochecer, y se dirigieron hacia el río con su preciosa caja... Y los vieron alejarse a través de las rendijas..."Thomas Sawyer es un chico huérfano que vive al cuidado de su tía Polly en un pueblecito a orillas del río Misisipi, en Estados Unidos. Tom, como así es conocido, vivirá gr...

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An unabridged, unaltered edition, to include the Prologue, and all 11 Letters with footnotes -

Encuadernación: Rústica Colección: ClásicaEsta novela constituye no sólo la culminación de la narrativa de Mark Twain, sino también una de las obras maestras, junto a Moby Dick, de la novela norteamericana. Clásico entre los clásicos, Mark Twain, con su sentido del humor y su prosa ágil, precisa y soleada, nos lleva río Mississippi abajo de la mano del inolvidable Huck Finn, que va en busca de la libertad junto a Jim, un muchacho negro que qui...

Mark Twain's famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story.

Als Satan noch ein Engel des Herrn ist, kommt er des Öfteren mit Gott ins Gespräch. Der hat gerade ein ungewöhnliches Experiment gestartet: eine Erde, bevölkert mit Tieren und mit Menschen der unterschiedlichsten Art und Neigung. Das will sich Satan einmal genauer ansehen. Er begibt sich auf die Erde und schildert seinen Kollegen, den Erzengeln Michael und Gabriel in einer Reihe von Briefen, was er an diesem seltsamen Ort so alles erlebt. - Di...

Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams. . . . It has the marks of greatness in it—style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy." —From the Introduction by Charles NeiderMark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy tha...

This marvelous hardcover edition features Mark Twain's witty translation of the hilarious rhymes that recount the disastrous consequences that befall naughty children. Hoffmann's captivating colour illustrations, adapted by Fritz Kredel from a rare limited edition, complement the comical verses.

Excerpt: ... I could not make a sound. I listened for my wife's voice and my child's-listened long and intently, but no sound came from the other end of the room where their bed was. This silence became more and more awful, more and more ominous, every moment. Could you have endured an hour of it, do you think? Pity me, then, who had to endure three. Three hours-? it was three ages! Whenever the clock struck, it seemed as if years had gone by ...

Excerpt: ...in the bottom of which was a badly shattered vein of dull, yellowish, unpromising rock. One would as soon expect to find silver in a grindstone. We got out a pan of the rubbish and washed it in a puddle, and sure enough, among the sediment we found half a dozen black, bullet- looking pellets of unimpeachable "native" silver. Nobody had ever heard of such a thing before, science could not account for such a queer novelty. The stock ...

Excerpt: ...it perfect, said it was just exactly the way it all happened. Then as much as a dozen people got out their bottles and treated him. Well, by and by somebody said Sherburn ought to be lynched. In about a minute everybody was saying it, so away they went, mad and yelling, and snatching down every clothes-line they come to to do the hanging with. CHAPTER XXII They swarmed up towards Sherburn's house, a-whooping and raging like Injuns,...

Excerpt: ...has this office been established here, Ulfius?" "But since midnight, fair Sir Boss, an it please you. We saw many lights in the valley, and so judged it well to make a station, for that where so many lights be needs must they indicate a town of goodly size." "Quite right. It isn't a town in the customary sense, but it's a good stand, anyway. Do you know where you are?" "Of that I have had no time to make inquiry, for whenas my comr...

The Prince and the Pauper is a classic story written by Mark Twain and has been adapted for Elementary Level readers. The story explains what happens when two boys - Edward Tudor, a prince and future King of England, and the poor son of a thief meet and swap lives. Includes an Audio CD.

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»Ich mag Kritik, aber sie muss zu meinen Gunsten ausfallen.« Mark Twain Die schönsten, liebsten und originellsten Aphorismen und Anekdoten des größten amerikanischen Schriftstellers - boshaft, geistreich, witzig wie nie zuvor. »Wenn man bei Lärm einschläft, schlummert man friedlich weiter, sobald der Lärm jedoch aussetzt, wird man von der Stille geweckt.«

Mark Twain erlangte nicht nur als Autor von Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn Weltruhm. Er wurde auch berühmt durch seine satirische Sicht auf die Gesellschaft und seine Scharfzüngigkeit. Ob sich seine Polemik gegen die Verlogenheit der Verhältnisse, gegen Ignoranz und Dummheit richtet oder ob er sich über Alltagssituationen amüsiert - immer ist sie treffsicher und brillant formuliert und höchst vergnüglich. Die schönsten Boshaftigkeiten aus sei...

Bummel durch Deutschland ist der vergnügliche Bericht einer Reise, die Mark Twain von Hamburg aus über Frankfurt und Heidelberg nach Süddeutschland bis in die Schweiz führte. Verblüfft beobachtet er die seltsamen Rituale schlagender Korpsstudenten in Heidelberg, absonderlich erscheint ihm die deutsche Oper: »eine Katzenmusik, die Lohengrin heißt«, und von der Rhein-Sage hat er eine ganz eigene Version ...