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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.

Ein Hörbuch mit den schönsten Kurzgeschichten - perfekt für die Reise oder zuhause...

Ein Hörbuch für die Reise mit unterhaltsamen Kurzgeschichten von Mark Twain, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern, Kurt Tucholsky, Gui de Maupassant...

A classic short story by Mark Twain, originally broadcast in the ‘Afternoon Reading’ slot on BBC Radio 4 on 9 November 2010, to accompany the 'Autobiography of Mark Twain' (aired on ‘Book of the Week'). Read by Stuart Millligan. This is the first of three of Twain’s classic short story broadcasts featuring the McWilliamses, with his familiar trademarks of high farce and droll insight.

A selection of Mark Twain's best work, including 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County', and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'.

A captivating retelling of Mark Twain's classic adventure story. True to the original in plot, character, themes and style, this is an excellent way for any listener to meet Tom Sawyer for the first time. Tom Sawyer is a respectable boy in a little Mississippi River town. Huck Finn is a freedom-loving, neglected outcast. What better playmate could Tom want?One night, innocent games of pirates and Robin Hood turn serious when the boys witness a murder in the graveyard.

The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. With its unforgettable cast of characters, Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) was better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. He is widely recognized as one of America's greatest authors and humorists. A Ghost Story is a classic Twain story. The author skillfully builds up layers of atmosphere and tension as he describes spending the night in a spooky house where chains rattle and terrifying apparitions appear...and then Twain amusingly turns the narrative into humour with a hilarious twist. Brilliant!

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.

100 Jahre musste gewartet werden, denn Mark Twain hatte verfügt, dass seine Autobiographie erst 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod veröffentlicht werden darf...

Hören Sie Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten 2 - Über Kinderkrankheiten und andere Unannehmlichkeiten...

On Christmas Eve 1909, Mark Twain's youngest daughter, Jean, died. She was just 29 years old. Over the next two days, in his grief, he wrote of his deep love for her; her last days with him; the previous loss of his wife, another daughter, and long-ime friends; and his profound loneliness as he reached what would be his own final days. He wanted this to be the final chapter of his autobiography. Four months later he, too, was dead.

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.

Having just lost a daughter to meningitis, Mark Twain wrote this book out of outrage toward the Christian Science movement and its founder Mary Baker Eddy. This movement emphasized the effects of prayer on healing the body and relieving sicknesses and other ailments. Although the founder of Christian Science appears to be altruistic with good intentions, Twain saw fraudulence and greed. Using his humor and wit, Mark Twain picks apart the movement in hopes of opening eyes to its falsehood.

There's no one quite like Mark Twain for finding humor in the most improbable situations - and these 10 stories prove it. He sets the tone in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," and completely hooks the reader in long before reaching the snowbound railway train in "Cannibalism in the Cars."

The letter alerts local farmers, who gather with shotguns. The farmers attack the shed, containing Jim, Tom, and Huck. The three escape. Tom receives a bullet wound in the leg.

Huck finds a doctor and sends him to Tom. Huck runs into Silas, who takes him home. The neighborhood is discussing the strange contents of the shed and marvel at the skill of the desperados.

The Duke and the Dauphin inquire about Jim. Huck claims they travel at night because he's tired of so many people asking if Jim is a runaway slave. The dauphin and the duke attend a revival meeting. The dauphin claims he is a reformed pirate, soon to be returning to the Indian Ocean as a missionary. The revivalists take up a collection for the dauphin. While in town, the duke takes over a deserted printing shop.

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.

After nearly strangling Huck for deserting them, the duke and the dauphin blame each other for losing the money.