Mark Twain

Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, A TRAMP ABROAD includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mount Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art - a wholly imagined activity Twain 'authenticated' with his own wonderfully primitive pictures included in this volume.

Mark Twain's sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, chronicling the adventures of Sawyer's friend, Huck Finn. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Mark Twain and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the work at hand.

Fourteen tales include "The Enormous Radio" by Cheever, Faulkner's "Dry September," Katherine Anne Porter's "He," "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, and tales by Hawthorne, Twain, Poe, Fitzgerald, Wharton, others.

Mark Twain's sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, chronicling the adventures of Sawyer's friend, Huck Finn. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, providing an excellent introduction for younger readers. Also includes theme discussions and study questions.

Mark Twain's gloriously funny Diary of Adam and Eve, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous episode of the Bible.

By giving a voice to Adam and Eve, and by hitting all the notes on the literary scale - from the intimate to the comical, from the journalistic to the idyllic - Twain displays the brilliance and wit for which he is rightly considered one of the greatest satirists of all time

Fils d'Henri VIII d'Angleterre, le prince de Galles rêve de courir en liberté et de se battre dans les rues de Londres avec les gamins de son âge. En même temps, dans un quartier sordide de la capitale anglaise, un petit pauvre rêve de devenir prince. Et si l'occasion était offerte aux deux enfants de réaliser leur rêve, chacun prenant la place de l'autre ? Dans une traduction simple et élégante, un grand classique de la littérature du XIXe

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Mark Twain (1835-1910) a fait rire le monde entier par ses aphorismes et ses contes depuis La Célèbre Grenouille sauteuse de Calaveras County, dont il a trouvé l'anecdote dans un camp de chercheurs d'or de Californie en 1865. Il y aurait quelque paresse intellectuelle à se contenter de la célébrité que lui ont value ses contes et à oublier les romans, fruits d'une expérience acquise au cours d'une existence tumultueuse et variée : apprenti typographe, journaliste, pilote pendant quatre ans sur le Mississippi, éphémère officier de l'armée sudiste, pionnier du Far West, chercheur d'or, directeur de journal, imprimeur, éditeur, voyageur, polémiste, moraliste. Si l'on retrouve l'humour sarcastique de La Célèbre Grenouille sauteuse dans les romans Wilson Tête-de-Mou et Les Jumeaux extraordinaires (1894), ou l'aplomb de l'Américain qui ne s'en laisse pas conter dans Un Yankee à la cour du roi Arthur (1887), on découvre un conteur tendre et presque féerique dans Le Prince et le Pauvre (1881). Mais c'est le cycle des aventures de Tom Sawyer (1876-1896), l'enfant indiscipliné et aventureux, et de son ami Huckleberry Finn, petit clodo sympathique, qui a consacré Mark Twain comme le père fondateur du roman américain moderne. Francis Lacassin