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Amérique, vers 1840. Le jeune Tom Sawyer n'a qu'une idée en tête : faire l'école buissonnière et partir en quête d'un trésor caché. Avec son fidèle compagnon Huckleberry Finn, ils sont tour à tour pirates, aventuriers, cow-boys. La découverte d'un crime nocturne met leur courage et leur raison à l'épreuve.

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking, wide-ranging travel writing.

Mark Twain décrit avec beaucoup de talent les frasques et mésaventures de Tom Sawyer, jeune garçon à l'esprit vif et débordant d'imagination, élevé par sa tante Polly, au bord du Mississipi. Tom ne loupe pas une occasion de se distinguer pour plaire à la jolie Becky, et il est toujours prêt pour vivre des aventures en compagnie de son inséparable ami Huckleberry Finn, fils de l'ivrogne du village. Un soir dans un cimetière, Tom et Huck sont témoins d'un meurtre. Muff Potter est accusé du crime, mais Tom et Huck savent que le véritable assassin est Joe l'Indien...

Ernest Hemingway said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". One hundred years after its author’s death, this classic remains remarkably modern and poignantly relevant. In this new edition, Elijah Wood reads Huck in a youthful voice that may be the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent. His performance captures the excitement and confusion of adolescence and adventure.

Pour échapper à un père toujours plus violent, Huckleberry Finn décide de disparaître. Se faisant passer pour mort, le jeune garçon croise la route du vieux Jim, un esclave évadé. Ensemble, les fugitifs vont descendre le Mississipi en radeau, affronter les bandits et un duo de...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the road to fortune led not to riches, but to the making of one of America's greatest storytellers? In Roughing It, Mark Twain invites listeners aboard a rattling stagecoach bound for the American West, where ambition, bad luck, astonishing...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What happens when a grand voyage across the world reveals more about the travelers than the places they visit? In The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain boards the steamship Quaker City in 1867 and sets out with a company of American tourists to explore...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On the same autumn day in Tudor London, two boys are born: Edward, Prince of Wales, wanted by all England, and Tom Canty, a beggar's son who is not wanted at all. Years later they meet by accident, discover they could be twins, and trade clothes for a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Embark on an unforgettable adventure down the mighty Mississippi River with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain! When young Huck Finn escapes his troubled life and sets off on a daring journey with Jim, a runaway enslaved man, their voyage...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A timeless masterpiece by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a captivating tale of childhood, freedom, friendship, and adventure that continues to enchant readers of all ages. Join young Tom Sawyer on an unforgettable adventure along the banks...

Tom Sawyer est publié en 1876 et remporte un succès immédiat. Son auteur, Mark Twain vient du sud des États-Unis, et c'est dans ce contexte régional et culturel qu'il situe les histoires de deux jeunes amis, Tom Sawyer et Huckleberry Finn, témoins malgré eux d'un meurtre ! Sur les bords...

Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing "there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft".

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Tom Sawyer can talk his way out of whitewashing a fence and into almost any kind of trouble. Along the Mississippi in a small town of Sunday schools, haunted houses and river islands, he and Huck Finn witness a graveyard murder, run away to become...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What secrets lie beneath the waters of a river that never stops changing? In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain takes listeners aboard the legendary steamboats that once ruled America's greatest river, revealing a vanished world of adventure, ambition...

Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 187071 and published in 1872 as a sequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad...

Tom Sawyer n'apprécie pas trop l'école. Il préfère de très loin retrouver son ami Huck qui mène une vie de bohème et vit dans un tonneau. Aussi turbulents qu'inséparables, les deux garçons aiment l'aventure, les expéditions, la vie de pirate sur une île du Mississippi et les expériences de sorcellerie... Sans oublier Becky, la fille du juge dont Tom Sawyer est amoureux. Jusqu'au jour où, cachés dans un cimetière, ils assistent à un véritable crime.

A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".

Actor and comedian Kevin O'Brien performs Mark Twain's classic—and delivers four lectures analyzing the brilliance of this great American novel.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the comic masterpiece of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who trained as a river-boat pilot (from which experience he took his pen-name, Mark Twain). His most famous book describes a boy's journey down the Mississippi aboard a raft with the runaway black slave Jim.

Here is one of the great autobiographies of the English language - exuberant, wonderfully contemporary in spirit, by a man twice as large as life who—he said so himself—had no trouble remembering everything that had ever happened to him and a lot of things besides.