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CONTENTS:1. The Gilded Age: A Tale Of Today 2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3. The Prince and the Pauper 4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 5. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court 6. The American Claimant 7. Tom Sawyer Abroad 8. Puddnhead Wilson 9. Tom Sawyer, Detective 10. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 11. A Horses Tale 12. The Mysterious Stranger 13. A Double Barreled Detective Story (BONUS)

Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence--when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him--to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in bat cave, the enjoyment just never ends.

Clásico de la literatura juvenil, en la colección Nuevo Auriga. Texto abreviado, para facilitar la lectura de los más jóvenes.

El autor recorre en La travesía del Pacífico (primera entrega de su viaje), las islas Fidji, Nueva Zelanda y Australia, y con su visión humorística describe con sencillez y melancolía, pero también con ironia punzante los habitos y costumbres de los nativos y colonizadores del siglo XIX en las por aquel entonces colonias o areas de influencia inglesa.En India (segunda entrega de su viaje), el autor recorre Ceilan y todo el subcontinente indio colonial, incluyendo las areas que con el tiempo devendran las futuras naciones de Pakistan y Afganistan.En el tercer volumen de Viaje alrededor del mundo, siguiendo el Ecuador, Twain llega a Surafrica tras haber recorrido las islas del pacifico, visitado Nueva Zelanda, Australia e India. Sus descripciones de un territorio donde se enfrentan ingleses, Boers y zulues, y de sus costumbres, estan llenas de ironia. Sigue añorando un mundo primitivo que esta dejando de serlo por causa de sus colonizadores, los ingleses, y aunque le seria facil identificarse con los Boers, tampoco estos escapan a su vision humoristica y sarcastica pues encarnan un sentido rigido de la vida, lo que para un hedonista como Mark Twain no puede por menos que sorprenderle, ya que le recuerdan a los colonizadores de su pais, Estados Unidos.

Mark Twain realizó su viaje en pos del oro, entre Saint Louis, Missouri, y Virginia city, Nevada, en algún momento entre 1856 y 1865. En principio, había planificado un viaje de ida y vuelta de tre

Tom Sawyer and his friends play truant from school and set off for an island near their home town. Here they decide to play pirates but their game is interrupted when they witness a murder. Tom has t

El autor recorre en La travesía del Pacífico (primera entrega de su viaje), las islas Fidji, Nueva Zelanda y Australia, y con su visión humorística describe con sencillez y melancolía, pero también con ironia punzante los habitos y costumbres de los nativos y colonizadores del siglo XIX en las por aquel entonces colonias o areas de influencia inglesa.En India (segunda entrega de su viaje), el autor recorre Ceilan y todo el subcontinente indio colonial, incluyendo las areas que con el tiempo devendran las futuras naciones de Pakistan y Afganistan.En el tercer volumen de Viaje alrededor del mundo, siguiendo el Ecuador, Twain llega a Surafrica tras haber recorrido las islas del pacifico, visitado Nueva Zelanda, Australia e India. Sus descripciones de un territorio donde se enfrentan ingleses, Boers y zulues, y de sus costumbres, estan llenas de ironia. Sigue añorando un mundo primitivo que esta dejando de serlo por causa de sus colonizadores, los ingleses, y aunque le seria facil identificarse con los Boers, tampoco estos escapan a su vision humoristica y sarcastica pues encarnan un sentido rigido de la vida, lo que para un hedonista como Mark Twain no puede por menos que sorprenderle, ya que le recuerdan a los colonizadores de su pais, Estados Unidos

Com qualsevol altre noi d'una ciutat petita a la vora del Mississippí, en Tom Sawyer nomes somia en fer campana a l'escola, passar-se el dia pescant, robar fruita dels arbres i buscar tresors. Pero la vida al Mississippi no es sempre facil, especialment quan en Tom es veu amenaçat pel despietat indi Joe i, encara pitjor, per la llista de feines a fer que li prepara la seva tieta Polly. L'agudesa d'esperit i la saviesa unica que destil·len els llibres de Mark Twain els han fet uns classics, pero la seva historia mes coneguda - i el seu heroi mes memorable - es, sens dubte, Tom Sawyer. Ara podeu gaudir d'una adaptacio en comic d'aquesta gran aventura americana.

This title is ideal for young readers who can experience the wonder of this timeless story in an easy to read abridged format. The audio CD enables young readers to listen to the story, whilst following along with the book. It is aimed at children aged 7 to 9 years old. 'Tom Sawyer liked adventures, which means he was always getting in trouble'. Searching for treasure, witnessing a murder, getting caught in a bat cave, tricking others into doing his work, running away with Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer's antics and mischief-making are sheer, child-pleasing delight. Every boy and girl should experience the joy and fun of this classic tale.

Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Missippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped a hanging. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe?

"Nada necesita tantas reformas como las costumbres delos demás" M. T.

Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer narra las andanzas de un chico, Tom Sawyer, y de su amigo Huckleberry Finn, a orillas del Misisipí. La novela está inspirada en los recuerdos de la infancia y la adolescencia del propio Mark Twain, plasmados con sencillez y gran sentido del humor. La obra consiguio un gran exito y Tom Sawyer se convirtio rapidamente en uno de los personajes mas importantes y queridos de la literatura norteamericana.

Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood, and of all his works his beloved novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" most enchantingly and timelessly captures the sheer pleasure of being a boy. Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he is reckless and mischievous, whether conning his friends into painting a fence, playing pirates with his pal Huck Finn, witnessing his own funeral, or helping to catch a murderer. Twain's novel glows with nostalgia for the Mississippi River towns of his youth and sparkles with his famous humor, but it is also woven throughout with a subtle awareness of the injustices and complexities of the old South that Twain so memorably portrays.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain's exhilarating Mississippi adventure story and the companion to Tom Sawyer. In hiding from his drunken and tyrannical father, Huck Finn escapes to Jackson's Island, where he meets ]im, a runaway slave. Together the boys set off on a raft down the Mississippi, in a daring bid for freedom from so-called 'sivilization'. Action-packed and crammed with vibrant characters and incidents, Huckleberry Finn catches more vividly than any other novel the comedy, terror, resilience and spontaneity of boyhood. More than a mere sequel to Tom Sawyer, it is Mark Twain's masterpiece and a great American novel.

Un gran clásico de la literatura norteamericana: una novela sobre la amistad, la adolescencia y la libertad.Las aventuras de Huck son hoy y siempre serán un hito en la narrativa moderna. Este muchacho vagabundo, pendenciero, solitario y sagaz es el paradigma del heroe y, a la vez, una de las voces mas veraces de la literatura. En una Norteamerica que se debate entre el racismo, la esclavitud y el afan de progreso, Huck decide remontar el Misisipi, fingir su propia muerte y vivir las aventuras mas arriesgadas. Prologo del escritor chileno Roberto Bolaño.

Ce bon vieux livre de médecine ? Le plus sûr moyen d'envoyer des générations entières engraisser l'herbe des cimetières ! Et que penser de ces milliardaires qui décident de voir si on peut vivre un mois entièrement à crédit ? Vous croisez l'ami auquel vous étiez en train de penser, est-ce une simple coïncidence ou une manifestation de « télégraphie mentale » ? Vous aimez les histoires cocasses et surprenantes ? Mark Twain est l'auteur qu'il vous faut !

In 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi. Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is expressive of the structure, style and high humour that is the very essence of Twain the writer. Spiced with Twain's pungent observations and commentaries on the culture and society of the great river valley, the book is a wonderful collection of lively anecdotes, tall tales and character sketches; historical facts and information; and reminiscences of the author's boyhood and experiences as a steamboat pilot. Life on the Mississippi, in its composition and substance, is intricately related to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In his introduction, James M. Cox suggests that in writing this travelogue Twain discovered the truths that form the heart of the odyssey depicted in his masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn.

A slave secretly swaps her son for her masters son. The two boys live in a quiet Missouri town until one goes to university. But then a strange sequence of events begins, one in which the derisively-named Puddnhead Wilson plays a key role in sorting out this darkly ironic injustice.

One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of Europe is both hilarious and touching, Twain's exasperation and dismay at the phoney and exploitative being matched by his excitement and pleasure in the genuinely beautiful. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.