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In this hilarious spoof of the detective story, a team of detectives try unsuccessfully to capture an stolen white elephant. This dramatized version features a full cast of characters.

Humorist Mark Twain demonstrates in the form of a short story fable how many individuals can come away from a story with different ideas regarding what a story was about. You might just see yourself in this delightful tale.

What if a story by Mark Twain about political economy had nothing to do with politics or economy? This humorous short story has everything to do with the interruptions by a workman the author faced when trying to pen thoughts on politics. There were many reasons Twain frustratingly agreed to something he never would have asked for, but the result were - shocking.

"The True Story" shares what Twain describes as a "word for word" account of a story he heard from a former slave woman. Aunt Rachel seemed the happiest of women, yet the audience is taken to the auction block, the loss of husband and children, and the inhumanities of her early life. From slavery to freedom you'll catch a glimpse of the difficult journey of Aunt Rachel.

If you've ever wondered what a tale of knights and dukes would look like through the mind of humorist Mark Twain? Travel back in time to the 1200s. Twain starts well setting the scene for a very interesting conflict. How will it resolve - or will it? The ending really shouldn't be a surprise for those who love the careless ease of Twains humor.

Join Mark Twain as he remembers his earliest attempt at poetry, which was a piece of writing that won no favor with his father. Then again many sons will have tackled a project with the same good humor and savage sarcasm.

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."

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.

In this unabridged recording of one of Mark Twain's lesser-known short stories, the "campaign of crime" referred to was a rash of robberies, arson, racketeering, and murders in Connecticut, where the author was living at that time. Alternatively funny, disturbing, and self-revelatory, an abridged performance of this piece has been part of Richard Henzel's Jefferson Award nominated stage show Mark Twain In Person since 1979.

These rib-ticklers include Mark Twain's "The Story of the Old Ram" and "The Story of a Speech"; E. P. Butler's "Pigs Is Pigs"; W. A. Butler's "Nothing to Wear"; Charles Dudley Warner's "How I Killed a Bear"; Eugene Field's "Oon Criteek de Bernhardt", William Livingstone Alden's "Carrie's Comedy", and Edith Wharton's "The Pelican".

Ein Mann bezieht ein Zimmer in einem Haus, in dem es angeblich spukt...

Dies ist die anstrengendste Wanderung vor der Erstbesteigung des Mount Everest - besonders für die Lachmuskeln! Obwohl der Baedecker nur drei Stunden bis zum Erreichen des Riffelberg-Gipfels angibt, weiß Mark Twain es besser:

Sieben Tage benötigen er und seine voll ausgerüstete Expedition. Klar, daß das nicht ohne Hindernisse vonstatten gegangen ist...

A collection of classic American short stories, including 'The Old Man's Bride' by Timothy Shay Arthur (read by Van Johnson), 'The Virginian' by Owen Wister (William Holden), 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James (Ronald Colman and Edna Best) and 'The Man That Corrupted Handleyburg' by Mark Twain (Frank Lovejoy).

An einem Herbsttag in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts werden in London zwei Knaben geboren: Tom Canty im Armenviertel und Prinz Edward, der langersehnte Thronfolger, im königlichen Schloß...

Zwei Männer sitzen im Zug. Es kommt ein Gewitter auf. Der Mitfahrer erkennt Mark Twain sofort. Er bietet ihm Essen, Zigaretten usw. an und erzählt eine Geschichte von einer Gewitternacht in seiner Heimat, von der Ängstlichkeit seiner Frau und von den Vorkehrungen, die dann getroffen werden müssen.

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...

Eve's Diary - Complete, written by the incomparable Mark Twain, was first published in 1905 in the Christmas edition of Harper's Bazaar. This charming short story is told from both Adam and Eve's point of view as they traverse their new world from the Garden through to the Fall and is said to be a love letter to his late wife Olivia Langdon Clemens who passed a year before it's publication.

Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn' (1884) è uno dei più famosi romanzi di Mark Twain e uno dei più importanti di tutta la letteratura americana...

Mark Twain: 40 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten. Die große Box. Hören Sie 40 der lustigsten Stories des berühmtesten Schriftstellers aus Amerika: Kandidatenfreuden; Ein Zwiegespräch; Prinzenverehrung; Sonntagsheiligung in Deutschland; Über frühreife Kinder; Die Hunde von Konstantinopel; Mehr Glück als Verstand; Einiges über Barbiere; Ein Miniaturreich im Weltmeer; Edward Jackson und Vanderbilt; Berliner Eindrücke; Kinderkrankheiten; Mrs. McWilliams beim Gewitter; Ein Tischgespräch u.v.m.

Det finns mer att upptäcka av Mark Twains författarskap förutom de berömda romanerna om Tom Sawyer och Huckleberry Finn. "På Mississippifloden : minnen, händelser och äventyr" är på en gång reseskildring och självbiografi sjudande av nostalgi, satir och melankoli. Författaren återvänder till Mississippifloden där han lekte som barn, drömde sig bort som yngling och som han nu möter igen som en mogen och framgångsrik man.