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"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (published in 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.

Whether he's sneaking doughnuts, mooning over a pretty girl, or snookering the local boys to do his work for him, Tom Sawyer is the consummate schemer - but his charm and easygoing nature keep him from being in anyone's bad graces for long. However, when Tom teams up with his friend Huck Finn, their sleepy Missouri town had better watch out.

Refusing to be civilized by Southern society or cowed by his drunken father's lashings, young Huckleberry Finn decides he has only one option left: fake his own death and hop a raft down the Mississippi River. Instead of carrying him far from trouble, though, Huck's raft delivers him to a place of moral uncertainty. Mark Twain unwinds Huck's harrowing journey to manhood with satirical wit, revealing the troubled history of the American South, where slavery held sway long after the Civil War ended.

What if Eve, the mother of all humankind, had blogged? What if she had shared her discoveries of the newly formed world, her experiments as the first scientist, and her travels as the first explorer? What if she shared the secrets of assisting the first man without damaging the first fragile male ego? What if we could enjoy with her the first falling in love? Perhaps she did. Perhaps we can. Perhaps somehow Mark Twain plucked that first "blog" out of the cosmic ether....

This audiobook is about a boy named Tom who gets into trouble but is also very clever. Tom is adventurous. Tom and some of his friends sneak away to an island while folks back home look for them.

"Tom Sawyer, Detective" is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876), "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), and "Tom Sawyer Abroad" (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Tom and Huck find themselves with Uncle Silas and his family again (see "Huck Finn"), and much of the drama ends up focusing on Uncle Silas.

Der aus Amerika stammende Schriftsteller Mark Twain (1835-1910) bereiste Europa ausführlich und mehrfach. Mit scharfem Blick nahm er dabei nicht nur die Eigenheiten der deutschen Sprache ins Visier (nachzulesen im Essay "The Awful German Language"), sondern auch die Begeisterung seiner Zeitgenossen für Alpenbesteigungen. Insbesondere die Berichte des Briten Edward Whymper über seine Erstbesteigung des Matterhorns (1865 von Zermatt aus) hatten es dem Schriftsteller so angetan, dass er beschloss: "Ich will den Riffelberg besteigen!"

Berühmte Autoren der Weltliteratur mit ihren besten Kurzgeschichten in ungekürzter Form: Mark Twain, Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, F. M. Dostojewski, August Strindberg, Joachim Ringelnatz, Guy de Maupassant, Heinrich Bredow, Honoré de Balzac, Ernst Kossak, Karl Ettlinger, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Friedrich Glauser, Georg Bötticher, Theodor Fontane, Rainer Maria Rilke, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johanna Spyri, Gottfried Keller, Friedrich Hebbel.

This story takes place in London and is about two boys who change places in life. One is a king and the other a poor commoner. They both learn much about each other’s ways of life and learn important lessons about being fair and treating people better than they have.

Eve's Diary - Complete, written by the incomparable Mark Twain, was first published in 1905 in the Christmas edition of Harper's Bazaar. This charming short story is told from both Adam and Eve's point of view as they traverse their new world from the Garden through to the Fall and is said to be a love letter to his late wife Olivia Langdon Clemens who passed a year before it's publication.

Hank Morgan is a man from 19th-century Connecticut who, after having a head injury, wakes to find himself 1300 years in the past in the court of King Arthur of medieval England. The people of the time notice that he is strange yet knowledgeable, but due to his odd clothing and language, is sentenced to death but avoids it by knowing of a coming eclipse and tricking the nobility into thinking he himself blotted out the sun. King Arthur elevates Hank to a ministerial position and Hank goes about trying to reeducate the people.

"Tom Sawyer Abroad" is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx.

This novel is about the adventurous boy Huck and his friend Jim, who venture down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Un relato en el que Mark Twain pone de manifiesto sus hilarantes y poco ortodoxas opiniones sobre la religión. «Me gusta una buena historia bien contada. Por esta razón, a veces me veo obligado a contarlas yo mismo». Con estas palabras Mark Twain, según Hemingway, el padre indiscutible de la literatura estadounidense, defendía sus cuentos, hábilmente tramados, de inventiva inagotable y personajes inolvidables.

Adam had a fine life. He had all the food he wanted, a fine garden to live in, and miles and miles of peace and quiet. Until one day, a woman entered his life. And amongst her other garrulous qualities, she says that his beautiful garden doesn't really look like a garden at all. She thinks it looks more like a park.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant fireman named Tom Sawyer with whom Twain was acquainted in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter.

Liebe Hörer, der US-amerikanische Schriftsteller Mark Twain ist in der breiten Öffentlichkeit insbesondere für seine Romane über Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn bekannt. Er war ein begnadeter Geschichten-Erzähler, der es verstand, scharfzüngige Gesellschaftskritik in fesselnde Unterhaltung zu verflechten. Warum heißt es bei diesem Hörbuch nach Mark Twain? Der Autor veröffentlichte ursprünglich zwei Geschichten. "Extracts from Adam's Diary" erschien 1904.

Hier sind sie versammelt, die Meister der spitzen Zunge, die Helden hintersinnigen Humors, die Sänger spöttischer Verse und bissiger Satire: Ringelnatz juchzt vor Morgenwonne und Morgenstern führt den Wer- (oder war es der Was-?) wolf vor. Kurt Tucholsky erweist sich als unbestechlicher Beobachter des Menschlichen und Allzumenschlichen und Mark Twain kämpft mit der deutschen Sprache. Hören Sie 25 Geschichten und Gedichte, die Sie vergnüglich schmunzeln oder Tränen lachen lassen.

In A Tramp Abroad, the ever adventurous Mark Twain brings his wit and creativity to his travels in Europe. Twain takes fictional liberty, turning his travels into an entertaining journey as he visits many of the countries of Central Europe. Listeners are sure to be delighted and humored as they enjoy what is considered by many to be one of Mark Twain's best works.

This book, one of Mark Twain's first, is a hilarious, sometimes biting account of the author's travels through France, Italy, Greece, Russia, Palestine, Turkey, and Egypt. His wry observations pepper the narrative with humor, while at the same time making pertinent comments on the human condition.