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Tom Sawyer ist eine Lausbubengeschichte und spielt in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts in dem fiktiven Ort St. Petersburg in Missouri am Ufer des Mississippi...

Mark Twain hat mehrfach Europa bereist, ist in Deutschland, der Schweiz, Frankreich, Italien, ja sogar der Türkei gewesen. Seine satirischen, respektlosen, oft absolut treffenden Beobachtungen lassen Vertrautes im neuen Licht erscheinen, und sind schlichtweg ein Vergnügen.

Spannender und abwechslungsreicher kann das Leben am Mississippi kaum sein: Entweder stürzt sich Tom Sawyer mit seinem Freund Huck in waghalsige Abenteuer...

Hören Sie Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten 5 - Über Österreicher, Engländer, Franzosen - und andere merkwürdige Lebewesen...

Fahr'n Se Bahn - da könn' Se was erleben!

Der Zug nach Chicago gerät in einen wilden Schneesturm, der schließlich die Fahrt zum Stillstand bringt. Nach vielen Tagen ohne Nahrung abseits aller Zivilisation stellen die Reisenden eine außergewöhnliche Kandidatenliste auf: Der Sieger der anschließenden Wahl wird genüßlich zum Frühstück zubereitet. Doch dabei bleibt es nicht...

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Mark Twain was ingenious at political satire. In this short story Twain recounts his learning of the political system of the fictional Republic of Gondour. Listeners will tell quickly that Gondour had some pretty unusual laws related to the vote of the people. We end up just as confused as Twain intended, but the twist at the end brings us exactly where Twain intended for us to be - in our own country with our own politics.

Generations of readers and listeners have enjoyed the ingenuous triumphs and feckless mishaps of boyhood days on the Mississippi. This classic of American wit and storytelling introduced Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, the Widow Douglas, and many other characters to the world, including, of course the boy who “was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad—and because all their children admired him so”: Huckleberry Finn.

We've all heard that if we don't like the weather just give it five minutes and it will change. This short story by humorist Mark Twain may have been the origin of the idea. Twain seems convinced that no weather is more varied than in New England. No forecast is so difficult to claim as true as New England. Then again, each region could make the claim and be proud of their prognostication.

Der Klassiker in einer neuen Hörspielfassung von Thomas Tippner.

When we first met "the pariah of the village... the son of the drunkard" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom was "under strict orders not to play with him," so he played with him every time he got the chance. Twain took his most outrageous and outcast character (and perhaps the one he loved the most), Huckleberry Finn, from that timeless tale and wrote his own adventures.

A comic short story told in the first person by the first woman in the biblical creation story, Eve. Written in diary-entry style from creation to burial, the story was first published in the 1905 Christmas edition of Harper's Bazaar. Many believe it may have been written as a posthumous love-letter to Mark Twain's wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, or Livy, who died in June 1904, just before the story was written.

"Gorodok na Missisipi" - radiopostanovka po romanu Mark Tvena "Prikljuchenija Toma Sojera". Prodolzhenie prikljuchenij Toma Sojera - mal'chika primerno dvenadcatiletnego vozrasta. On zhivjot u tjoti Polli, sestry svoej pokojnoj materi, vmeste so svoim svodnym bratom Sidom, poslushnym mal'chikom, kotoryj v otlichie ot Toma ne dostavljaet nikakih hlopot. Tom, veselyj prokaznik, ljubitel' pohuliganit' i proguljat' uroki. Prikljuchenija Tom Soejra i ego druzej v shkole i drugie ne malo vazhnye sobytija.

From Mark Twain: "My book is intended mainly for the entertainment of young boys and girls. I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in."

This classic storyteller, Mark Twain, shares the tale of an encounter with a ghost in a newly opened, but previously abandoned, apartment building. Was this ghost a menace or simply mischievous? Humor is most always a companion of a Twain tale and it visits even this story. Memorable and perfectly constructed.

Mark Twain describes this humorous story - gained from a lunch with a known member of the clergy - as true. This tale follows a man who is not named (out of respect) who was known to be foolish, yet every wrong choice he made turned out to be the perfect decision. A man who should not have been a war hero becomes one. Those that knew him wondered how that could possibly happen.

In 1882, Mark Twain decided to write a memoir of his experiences growing up with, and later steering steamboats on, the Mississippi River. Following a history of the exploration and early commerce, he takes us with him as he "learns the river" and becomes a licensed pilot. The third part of the audiobook tells of his return to the river in preparation for this book. This important geographical phenomenon has been America's greatest single source of progress - and pain.

Wer träumt nicht von einem eigenen Pferd? Als der Protagonist den "mexikanischen Mustang" auf der Auktion sieht, beschließt er, diesen sofort zu kaufen. Aber war das wirklich eine gute Idee?

Tom Sawyer, a universally recognizable classic literary hero, is an intelligent and imaginative boy who is nevertheless careless and mischievous. He along with his friend Huck Finn accidentally witnesses a murder for which an innocent man is wrongly accused. Together they succeed in revealing the truth, but now the real murderer is after their life.

Mark Twain accepted the editorship of an agricultural paper due to a financial need. The humorous trouble was that Twain had no real knowledge of agriculture. Then again Twain never seemed to mind writing about things he knew nothing about. The response from the public was immediate and intense. This short story allows Twain to explain why he had no problem taking on a task that he knew he couldn’t do well.

When someone compliments you, the usual response is gratitude and kind words in return. Not so with Mark Twain. When told that he spoke English very well Twain indicated he didn't speak English at all. He spoke American. This short story allows Twain the opportunity to explain the differences. As usual humor walks with Twain as he shares his thoughts.