Le avventure di Tom Sawyer

Scritto da Mark Twain

Narrato da Eleonora Calamita

Uno dei capolavori della letteratura americana, che riesce a coniugare il gusto per l’avventura a un’esilarante (e nostalgica) vena umoristica. Il giovane 'monello' Tom Sawyer è orfano e vive con la vecchia Zia Polly e i due fratellastri Sid e Mary in un villaggio della provincia americana alla fine del diciannovesimo secolo. Gli piace nuotare, cercare tesori nascosti, rubare la marmellata, torturare il gatto, fare a pugni coi bambini e corteggiare le bambine, affrontare paurose scorribande notturne nel cimitero, ficcarsi nei guai assieme agli inseparabili compagni Joe Harper e Huckleberry Finn … Detesta il lavoro e la scuola, ma è intelligente e furbo, e ha un cuore grande, coraggioso e generoso. Insomma: è un bambino sano e perfettamente normale… uno dei personaggi più simpatici della letteratura mondiale. Il nostro mondo, e specialmente quello americano, è profondamente cambiato rispetto a quello descritto nel romanzo, ma l’ironia e la tenerezza di quelle pagine uscite oltre un secolo fa dalla penna di Mark Twain riescono ancora a divertire e commuovere i lettori di tutte le età. La lettura, agile e coinvolgente, è dell’attrice Eleonora Calamita. (immagine di copertina: Courtesy of the artist John Palacios - www.johnpalacios.com)

Contenuto: Versione integrale – Da cap I a cap XXXVI
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• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: il Narratore audiolibri
• Data di uscita: 19 apr 2019
• ISBN: 9788868162191

Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a setting which would serve as inspiration for some of his most famous works. After an apprenticeship at a local printer’s shop, he worked as a typesetter and contributor for a newspaper run by his brother Orion. Before embarking on a career as a professional writer, Twain spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi and as a miner in Nevada. In 1865, inspired by a story he heard at Angels Camp, California, he published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” earning him international acclaim for his abundant wit and mastery of American English. He spent the next decade publishing works of travel literature, satirical stories and essays, and his first novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel about a mischievous young boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1884 he released a direct sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which follows one of Tom’s friends on an epic adventure through the heart of the American South. Addressing themes of race, class, history, and politics, Twain captures the joys and sorrows of boyhood while exposing and condemning American racism. Despite his immense success as a writer and popular lecturer, Twain struggled with debt and bankruptcy toward the end of his life, but managed to repay his creditors in full by the time of his passing at age 74. Curiously, Twain’s birth and death coincided with the appearance of Halley’s Comet, a fitting tribute to a visionary writer whose steady sense of morality survived some of the darkest periods of American history.