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The duke and the dauphin, after a night of drinking, wake up and practice scenes from Shakespeare, which they mess up. They stop at a town in Arkansas, where they see a man shot in front of his daughter, followed by a lynch mob chasing the shooter.

Huck and Jim float down the Mississippi for a few days. They spot a boat, and Huck, looking for an adventure, decides he and Jim should hop aboard. They overhear two robbers threatening to kill a third. Jim and Huck's raft breaks loose and floats away.

Huck's Pap is angry that Huck has learned how to read. He goes to Judge Thatcher's and demands Huck's money. The widow tries to adopt Huck, but the new judge in town doesn't want to separate a father and son. The new judge takes Pap into his home to reform him. Pap fakes his reformation and gets drunk again.

Huck now lives with the widow Douglas but hates it and runs away. Tom Sawyer convinces him to return so he can join their gang. All attempts to "civilize" Huck fail. The chapter ends with Huck and Tom meeting outside Huck's window.

A ferry searches for Huck's body the next morning on account of his "murder". Huck feels guilty for causing pain to those who care for him. Huck relaxes for three days. On day four he finds Jim, who thinks Huck's a ghost. Huck is happy to find company until he discovers that Jim is a runaway slave.

Pap wakes up and sends Huck to check for fish. Huck finds a canoe and hides it. When Pap leaves, Huck finishes sawing his way out of the cabin and fakes his own death by slaughtering a pig and smearing the blood in the cabin. He paddles the canoe to Jackson's Island.

Huck is curious about the dead man, but Jim gets him to change the subject. Huck puts a dead snake by Jim's bed as a joke. The snake's mate bites Jim. Huck goes to shore dressed as a girl to get news.

Huck and Tom wake up Jim, the widow's slave. They play a trick on Jim by taking off his hat and setting it on a tree branch. Jim thinks he's been bewitched and later gains fame as a witch expert. Tom and Huck meet their friends at a cave that serves as the boys' secret hideout. They form a band of robbers.

The widow Douglas and Miss Watson try to teach Huck religion but fail. There's a rumor circulating that Huck's drunk, abusive father is dead. Huck knows that the report is mistaken. Tom's gang disbands. Huck realizes that Tom's stories are mostly lies.

Jim and Huck find a cave where they wait out a storm. They see a damaged houseboat floating by and raid it. Jim sees a dead body but won't let Huck see it.

Pap sues Judge Thatcher for Huck's money and threatens Huck not to attend school, which Huck does in order to spite Pap. Pap kidnaps Huck, and the two live in a shed down by the river. Huck begins sawing his way out of the cabin. Suffering from delirium tremens, Pap chases Huck with a knife before passing out. Huck points a gun at Pap as he sleeps.

Huck recognizes his father's boot print outside his house and immediately sells his money to the judge for a dollar. After getting advice from Jim's talking hairball, Huck returns home, where he finds his dad waiting in his bedroom for him.

A collection of classic short stories for the restless sleeper.... "A Dream of Wild Bees" by Olive Schreiner, "The Face" by E. F. Benson, "The Dream" by A. J. Alan, "In a Far-Off World" by Olive Schreiner, "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor Sologub, "Life's Gifts" by Olive Schreiner, "A Curious Dream" by Mark Twain, "The Artist's Secret" by Olive Schreiner and "A Joy Ride" by A. J. Alan.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti narrates "The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, a scathing indictment of war and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war.

If you are less than fond of telemarketing phone calls, door-to-door salesmen, and email spam, then you have something in common with beloved humorist Mark Twain. In this story, he encounters a "Canvasser" (essentially a door-to-door huckster). The man's story is compelling and it is only at the end that Twain connects the dots, but by then he's in line to buy something he doesn't need.

Was im Garten Eden genau passiert ist, davon erzählen diese Aufzeichnungen auf amüsante, charmante und dabei tiefgründige Weise. Augenzwinkernd enthüllt Mark Twain die liebenswürdigen Eigenarten von Adam und Eva. Zwei, die zuerst nicht zueinander zu passen scheinen, finden sich schließlich doch. Ein paradiesisches Hörvergnügen und ein Plädoyer für die Liebe!

Wer träumt nicht davon, endlich der Stadt zu entfliehen und den Blick über Wiesen und Berge schweifen zu lassen? Große Autoren erzählen von den Freuden eines einfachen Lebens im Einklang mit der Natur, von der Apfel- und Heuernte und vielem mehr.

Huckleberry Finn knüpft dort an, wo Tom Sawyer aufhört:Huck, nach dem Abenteuer mit Tom zu Geld gekommen, wohnt bei der Witwe Douglas, die versucht ihn zu "zivilisieren". Von dort wird er von seinem Vater entführt, dem er durch die Vortäuschung seiner eigenen Ermordung entkommt.Ab diesem Zeitpunkt beginnen seine Abenteuer auf dem Mississippi, zusammen mit dem entlaufenen Sklaven Jim...

Mark Twain - vor hundert Jahren gestorben, aber thematisch immer noch brandaktuell...

Das Leben ist leicht - solange man auf einer Flussinsel liegt, Fische grillt, Pfeife raucht und sich Geschichten erzählt. Aber lange können Huckleberry Finn und der geflohene Sklave Jim ihre Freiheit nicht genießen, denn allerhand Abenteuer warten auf die beiden. So müssen sie z. B. den zwei Hochstaplern "Herzog" und "König" das betrügerische Handwerk legen, Tom Sawyer in den Griff kriegen - der mal wieder vor verrückten Ideen übersprudelt - und Tante Sally und Onkel Silas in Sicherheit wiegen.