Bücher von Mark Twain

This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi from St. Petersburg to Cairo. Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. They have a lot of adventures on the river. They even meet a king! But is he real? Huck soon finds out the truth.

Die Abenteuer des cleveren Lausbuben Tom Sawyer gehören zu den Klassikern der amerikanischen Literaturgeschichte und sind bei Kindern und Erwachsenen gleichermaßen beliebt. Der 1876 erschienene Roman wurde in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt und vielfach verfilmt. Mark Twain schildert die aufregenden Erlebnisse von Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Becky und Indianer Joe atemberaubend spannend, realistisch und mitunter auch ironisch, immer jedoch mit einem humorvollen Augenzwinkern.

Mit diesem Roman setzt 1884 Mark Twain die Geschichten von Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn fort. Twain schöpft auch hier aus seinen Erinnerungen an eine Kindheit am Mississippi und erzählt den Roman aus Sicht des Halbwaisen und sozialen Außenseiters Huck Finn. Dessen naiv-ehrliche Sicht auf die Welt war zu Twains Zeiten revolutionär und machte den Roman zu einem der wichtigsten Bücher der amerikanischen Literaturgeschichte. Hucks Abenteuerreise mit dem entflohenen Sklaven Jim ist keinesfalls nur eine amüsante Floßfahrt auf dem Mississippi, sondern auch die gefährliche und ernüchternde Begegnung mit den Schattenseiten des menschlichen Wesens. Zwar gibt Tom Sawyer der "Lausbubengeschichte" am Ende einen humorvolleren Anstrich – wer genau hinhört, wird aber einige bittere Wahrheiten erkennen, die Twain uns sehr bewusst servieren wollte.Mark Twain (1835–1910) hat sein Handwerk als Autor von Anfang an erlernt. Nach einer Ausbildung zum Schriftsetzer arbeitete er in vielen Städten der USA als Drucker und Journalist. Neben seiner Tätigkeit auf einem Mississippidampfer war er Soldat bei den Konföderierten und Goldsucher. Nach mehreren Reisen gelang ihm mit "Jumping-Frog" der literarische Durchbruch. Humor und tiefgründige Satire wurden zu seinen Markenzeichen.

Fascinating humorous account of 1897 voyage to Hawaii, Australia, India, New Zealand, etc. Ironic, bemused reports on peoples, customs, climate, flora and fauna, politics, much more. 197 illustrations.

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, was host to riverboat travelers from around the world, providing a vigorous and variable atmosphere for the young Samuel Clemens to absorb. Clemens became a riverboat pilot and even chose his pen name-Mark Twain-from a term boatmen would call out signifying water depth at two fathoms, meaning safe clearance for travel. It was from this background that Life on the Mississippi emerged. It is an epochal record of America's growth, a stirring remembrance of her vanished past. And it earned for its author his first recognition as a serious writer. With an Introduction by Justin Kaplanand an Afterword by John Seelye

Why the Humorous Story Can Only Be Told by Americans I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told. There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may wander around as much as it pleases, but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point. The humorous story bubbles gently along, the others burst. The teller of the comic story does not slur the nub; he shouts it at you-every time. And when he prints it, he italicizes it, puts some whooping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis. All of which is very depressing, and makes one want to renounce joking and lead a better life. Get Your Copy Now

Steampunk Six Pack is a retro-futurist's delight, a menagerie of human horses, rocket-ships to the moon, time machines and even the Internet. It's all here, in six classic steampunks from 1726-1900: Gulliver's Travels Part IV, The Unparalleled Adventures Of One Hans Pfaall, From the Earth to the Moon, In The Year 2889 and The British Barbarians. From 'The London Times' of 1904

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain's life before he began to write.Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America's most profound chronicler of the human comedy.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, one of Mark Twain's greatest books, was partially written in Elmira, New York. Twain's beloved octagonal study sat at his family's Quarry Farm overlooking Elmira. The study now sits on Elmira College's campus. Twain and his family are buried in Elmira's Woodlawn Cemetery.

"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 fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he "free and frank and unembarrassed" in the recounting of his life and his experiences.Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.

In addition to the Alta letters, six letters to the New York Tribune and one to the New York Herald are reprinted here. Daniel Morley McKeithan's discussion of the alterations and deletions made in each letter throws light on Twain's methods of composition and revision. Those who have read The Innocents Abroad and those who have not will find equal delight in this volume.

After joining a ragtag militia of small-town acquaintances at the outbreak of the Civil War, Samuel Clemens soon discovered he had little aptitude for military life. He left the ranks in haste; in the same fateful spring of 1861, his brother Orion had been appointed secretary of the new western territory of Nevada. With arrest for his desertion looming, and no other promising vocation at hand, Clemens climbed aboard the westbound stagecoach with Orion at St. Joseph, Missouri on July 26. The brothers endured 21 long days on the trails heading over the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, to the Great Salt Lake and the Great Basin deserts, before finally arriving in Carson City, Nevada Territory. Drawn by the promise of silver riches from the nearby Comstock mine, Clemens soon found buying claims and digging for ore to be an uncertain proposition. In the meantime, he amused himself by writing short contributions to the local newspaper, the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. Although the writing profession had never struck Clemens as a particularly worthy career, Enterprise business manager William Barstow was so taken with Clemens' work that he offered a permanent, salaried position as a local reporter, at $25 a week. Facing a serious lack of funds, Clemens negotiated, and then accepted After a discouraging first day, in which he tramped all over Virginia City and found nothing to write about, Clemens discovered that news eventually came without much prompting through his network of barroom friends and street-corner acquaintances. He wrote up tragic saloon shoot-outs, elegant hotel balls, deadly Indian fights, mining scams, the monotonous proceedings of the territorial legislature, and strange finds in the western desert, including the petrified corpse of a forlorn prospector: the author's first public hoax. Adopting the pen name of Mark Twain, his writing found a ready audience far beyond the borders of Nevada, eventually developing a national audience for his trademark keen observation, comic sensibility and sardonic, common-sense outlook. In Nevada: Journalism 1862-1964, the latest historical journalism collection from The Archive, includes hundreds of Mark Twain's most intriguing short articles from the Territorial Enterprise and other papers, complete and unabridged. Through these pieces, readers will enjoy street-level western history through the eyes of a renowned and timeless American author.