Ergebnis für "Tom Sawyer" in Historische Romane

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Im Hungerwinter 1946/47 begegnet Hedi, hochschwanger und junge Flüchtlingsfrau aus Pommern, Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth, einer der schillerndsten Gestalten im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit. Als alleinerziehende Mutter kämpft Hedi gegen Vorurteile und Misstrauen. Aber ihre beharrliche Suche nach Freundschaft und Liebe wird belohnt – bis vollkommen unerwartet der Vater ihres Kindes vor der Tür steht.

Step into the enchanting world of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, a timeless classic that captures the essence of childhood adventures and the thrill of growing up in the American South. This audiobook immerses you in the mischievous and imaginative world of Tom Sawyer, a young boy with an insatiable curiosity and a penchant for getting into all sorts of scrapes and adventures.

Nelle "Avventure di Tom Sawyer" (apparso nel 1876) l'autore dà voce ai sentimenti, alle storie e alle superstizioni che la sua generazione ancora condivideva nel periodo appena antecedente la Guerra di secessione, dove l'insicurezza e i problemi razziali dipingevano lo scenario emotivo della società americana del Sud.

At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and his pal Tom Sawyer "light out for the Territory" to avoid "sivilization". In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Huck and Tom start by joining the famous but short-lived Pony Express.

Mark Twains Lausbub Tom Sawyer und sein Freund, der Straßenjunge Huckleberry Finn begeistern bis heute ebenso junge wie alte Leser. Ob es darum geht, sich um das Streichen eines Zaunes zu drücken, das Herz der schönen Becky zu gewinnen oder ein Leben als Pirat zu beginnen – der gewitzte Tom hat immer eine Idee auf Lager! Doch das lustige Leben endet, als die beiden Freunde eines Nachts auf dem Friedhof zufällig einen Mord beobachten...

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts.They don’t see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost – much, much worse.

La storia di Huck e della sua fuga in zattera lungo il Mississippi con il negro Jim, fino al ricongiungimento col compagno di scorrerie Tom Sawyer nel romanzo che nacque come proseguimento del precedente "Le avventure di Tom Sawyer" era tra le preferite di Ernest Hemingway, che citava sempre Mark Twain tra i suoi autori fondamentali: e non a caso, naturalmente, visto che fin dai suoi esordi anche l'autore di "Fiesta" lavorò molto duramente per riuscire a ricreare sulla pagina la lingua della strada, cosa per cui venne assai criticato.

Three men come together in the town of Redemption, Colorado, each for his own purpose. Huck Finn is a famous lawman who does not hesitate to use his gun to protect the weak. He has come to right a terrible wrong. After his wife’s death, Tom Sawyer does not want to live anymore; he has come to die. The third man, the Laramie Kid, a killer Huck and Tom befriended years earlier has come to kill a man. For these three men Death is a constant companion. For these three men it is their last chance for redemption.