Bücher von Mark Twain

Diese historische Geschichte, die in zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Welten im England des 16. Jahrhunderts spielt, dreht sich um das Leben zweier Jungen, die am selben Tag in London geboren wurden: Edward, Prince of Wales, und Tom Canty, ein Straßenbettler. Bei einer zufälligen Begegnung erkennen die beiden, dass sie identisch sind und beschließen aus Spaß, Kleider und Rollen zu tauschen - eine Situation, die das Leben der beiden Jugendlichen kurzzeitig, aber drastisch verändert. Der Prinz, in Lumpen gekleidet, wandert zwischen den unteren Klassen durch die ausgelassenen Viertel der Stadt und erträgt eine Reihe von Entbehrungen; Der arme Tom, der jetzt bei den Royals lebt, ist ständig von der Angst erfüllt, entdeckt zu werden, wer und was er wirklich ist.

Mark Twain's own autobiography remains the last of Twain's incredible long stories. Here he expresses his story in his own specific way, freely sharing his joys and sorrows, his bitterness and honors, and his likes and dislikes, as always jokingly. Not often, this is the story, and some of it is true. More than the tale of a literary person, this memoir is anchored in his relationship with his family and what they all meant to him as a husband, father, and artist. It also includes various of Twain's best comic tales about his rowdy childhood in Hannibal, his misadventures in the Nevada region, his famous Whittier birthday speech, his travel abroad stories, and many more.

En la antigua ciudad de Londres, un cierto día de otoño del segundo cuarto del siglo XVI, le nació un niño a una familia pobre, de apellido Canty, que no lo deseaba. El mismo día otro niño inglés le nació a una familia rica, de apellido Tudor, que sí lo deseaba. Toda Inglaterra también lo deseaba. Inglaterra lo había deseado tanto tiempo, y lo había esperado, y había rogado tanto a Dios para que lo enviara, que, ahora que había llegado, el pueblo se volvió casi loco de alegría. Meros conocidos se abrazaban y besaban y lloraban. Todo el mundo se tomó un día de fiesta; encumbrados y humildes, ricos y pobres, festejaron, bailaron, cantaron y se hicieron más cordiales durante días y noches. De día Londres era un espectáculo digno de verse, con sus alegres banderas ondeando en cada balcón y en cada tejado y con vistosos desfiles por las calles. De noche era de nuevo otro espectáculo, con sus grandes fogatas en todas las esquinas y sus grupos de parrandistas alegres alborotando entorno de ellas. En toda Inglaterra no se hablaba sino del nuevo niño, Eduardo Tudor, Príncipe de Gales, que dormía arropado en sedas y rasos, ignorante, de todo este bullicio, sin saber que lo servían y lo cuidaban grandes lores y excelsas damas, y, sin importarle, además. Pera no se hablaba del otro niño, Tom Canty, envuelto en andrajos, excepto entre la familia de mendigos a quienes justo había venido a importunar con su presencia.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

No sabréis quién soy yo si no habéis leído un libro titulado Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer, pero no importa. Ese libro lo escribió el señor Mark Twain y contó la verdad, casi siempre. Algunas cosas las exageró, pero casi siempre dijo la verdad. Eso no es nada. Nunca he visto a nadie que no mintiese alguna vez, menos la tía Polly, o la viuda, o quizá Mary. De la tía Polly ¿¿es la tía Polly de Tom¿¿ y de Mary y de la viuda Douglas se cuenta todo en ese libro, que es verdad en casi todo, con algunas exageraciones, como he dicho antes. Bueno, el libro termina así: Tom y yo encontramos el dinero que los ladrones habían escondido en la cueva y nos hicimos ricos. Nos tocaron seis mil dólares a cada uno: todo en oro. La verdad es que impresionaba ver todo aquel dinero amontonado. Bueno, el juez Thatcher se encargó de él y lo colocó a interés y nos daba un dólar al día, y todo el año: tanto que no sabría uno en qué gastárselo. La viuda Douglas me adoptó como hijo y dijo que me iba a cevilizar, pero resultaba difícil vivir en la casa todo el tiempo, porque la viuda era horriblemente normal y respetable en todo lo que hacía, así que cuando yo ya no lo pude aguantar más, volví a ponerme la ropa vieja y me llevé mi pellejo de azúcar y me sentí libre y contento. Pero Tom Sawyer me fue a buscar y dijo que iba a organizar una banda de ladrones y que yo podía ingresar si volvía con la viuda y era respetable. Así que volví.

Al rato se acercó una niña muy bella, de unos diez años con una catarata de cabello dorado que descendía por su espalda. Sobre la cabeza llevaba una guirnalda de encendidas amapolas rojas, y nada más. Era el más hermoso atuendo que jamás había visto, aunque fuese tan exiguo. Caminaba indolentemente, sin preocupaciones, su paz interior reflejada en la inocencia del rostro. El tipo del circo no le prestó la menor atención, ni siquiera pareció verla. Y ella... ella no se sorprendió en absoluto de su extravagante aspecto; con estuviese acostumbrada a ver apariciones semejantes todos los días. Pasaba de largo tan indiferentemente, como si se hubiese cruzado con un par de vacas; pero me vio, ¡y entonces sí que se produjo un cambio! Alzó las manos como si se hubiera quedado petrificada, y con la boca abierta de par en par y los ojos fijos y medrosos era la mismísima estampa del asombro mezclado con el miedo. Se quedó mirándome con una especie de fascinación estupefacta, hasta que doblamos el recodo del bosque y nos perdió de vista. Que se hubiera sobresaltado al verme, y no cuando había visto al otro, era demasiado para mí; no le encontraba ni pies ni cabeza al asunto. Y que me considerara a mí un espectáculo, pasando completamente por alto sus propios méritos al respecto, era otro enigma, y también una demostración de magnanimidad inesperada en alguien tan joven. Había allí motivos de reflexión. Seguí caminando como si estuviera en mitad de un sueño.

All Texts in German and Englisch Seine Kritik an der deutschen Sprache beginnt Twain mit der Feststellung, dass es keine andere Sprache gebe, die so ungeordnet und unsystematisch sei wie die deutsche. In einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit der deutschen Sprache hat sich die aus Detroit stammende Lizzie Roberts mit diesem faszinierenden Text auseinandergesetzt. In ihre Illustrationen fließen viele Jahre ihres eigenen Erlernens der deutschen Sprache ein. Es erscheint eine Vorzugsausgabe mit einem signierten Multiple von Lizzie Roberts, einer hochwertiger Künstlertasche und signiertem Buch.

[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqué squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906.Written as an extract from the diary of an "old man", Queen Elizabeth I's "cup-bearer", the pamphlet purports to record a conversation between Elizabeth and several famous writers of the day. The topics discussed are entirely scatological, notably flatulence, flatulence humor, and sex.1601 was, according to Edward Wagenknecht, "the most famous piece of pornography in American literature." However, it was more ribaldry than pornography; its content was more in the nature of irreverent and vulgar comedic shock than obscenity for sexual arousal.Prior to the court decisions in the United States in 1959-1966 that legalized the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill, the piece continued to be considered unprintable, and was circulated clandestinely in privately printed limited editions.

This volume gathers eight of Mark Twain's most-loved humorous stories and features "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"-the career-making story of a visit by an inveterate gambler to an old mining camp in California's Gold Country. The undisputed master of the tall tale, Twain's legendary deadpan delivery and his ability to pile on and compound the hilarity make his stories as uproarious as they are singular. His humor also reveals a keen insight into not only what makes us laugh but what makes us human. This Warbler Classics edition includes Twain's 1894 essay "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story," which includes Twain's "retranslation" from the French, and a detailed biographical timeline.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyeris an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, TomSawyer has several Adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain tourne tout en dérision, il ne respecte vraiment rien: de Sherlock Holmes au mouvement féministe, en passant par les récits de voyages tragiques, la nature, les chasseurs, l'Église, les amis, les médecins et bien d'autres encore, chacun en prend pour son grade. C'est drôle, et on y reconnaît forcément quelqu'un tant il y a de personnages variés et plongés dans des situations cocasses.

Don't come to Mark Twain looking for a tightly outlined, focused work. He wasn't that type of writer. His books are closer to theme and variations - starting with an idea, riffing on it, detouring from it, throwing in another theme, detouring from that with wild, tangentially connected variations, and back around again. And somehow he makes it work with his one of a kind American voice that's always just barely concealing a chuckle. Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his early life learning to be a pilot on a Mississippi River Boat during the glory days of those crafts. It's also a travel book, recording his trip on the river over twenty years after he had left it. It includes excerpts from his then work in progress, Huckleberry Finn (in a form different than you will find in that novel). It's full of broad jokes, tall tales, shaggy dog stories, and legends and folklore that Twain satirically deconstructs. He includes a bit of Mississippi River history, takes a few shots at some of his favorite targets (religion and the medieval romances of Sir Walter Scott) and even engages in some touching nostalgia as he visits his childhood home, Hannibal, Missouri. (Theo Logos) About Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been called the "Great American Novel". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. His humorous story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention and was even translated into French. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures but invested in ventures that lost most of it-such as the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but in time overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He eventually paid all his creditors in full, even though his bankruptcy relieved him of having to do so. Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet made its closest approach to the Earth. (wikipedia.org)