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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.

Today fewer people wear watches than ever. The reason may be that cell phones have a digital clock so there seems little need to wear a timepiece on your arm or in your pocket. Perhaps Mark Twain would have wished that he had a cell phone because his watch was costing him much more than an early cell phone upgrade. If you’ve ever had something repaired multiple times you will identify with the humorous struggle Twain relates in the short story "My Watch".

Continuing in the aftermath of the preceding book Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer cannot seem to stay out of trouble. Traveling across the Atlantic in a hot air balloon, Tom, Huck, and Jim are in quite a predicament. Listen to this classic, literary masterpiece, following the adventures of Tom, Huck, and Jim as they find themselves in the hands of a crazy inventor.

Tom Sawyer emanates self-confidence wherever he goes. With his buddy Huck Finn, pretty Becky Thatcher, cantankerous Aunt Polly, and a host of others, let's begin a journey to the time of riverboats, fishin' holes, and midnight grave robbers. Each character is brought to life through the sparkling narration of B.J. Harrison.

As a cub river pilot, one of Mark Twain’s masters was a pilot named George Ealer, who recited Shakespeare by the hour - from memory - and who was a virulent opponent of the notion that the Shakespeare plays and poems were in truth written by Sir Francis Bacon. At first, young Sam Clemens agreed with his teacher and boss, but he soon realized that it was no fun for the pilot to argue with someone who agreed with him all of the time.

Mark Twain - vor hundert Jahren gestorben, aber thematisch immer noch brandaktuell. Seine Reiseberichte über die fanatische Liebe...

Twain in Höchstform: Amerikas größter Humorist offenbart Geheimnisse und Abenteuer seiner Autobiographie - noch vertraulicher und persönlicher, mit einer Fülle bislang unveröffentlichter Texte. Nach dem furiosen Auftakt geht es endlich weiter - humorvoll, verspielt und bissig, wie wir Twain lieben, zugleich aber unverstellt, empfindsam und privat wie selten zuvor.

Wer träumt nicht davon, endlich der Stadt zu entfliehen und den Blick über Wiesen und Berge schweifen zu lassen? Große Autoren erzählen von den Freuden eines einfachen Lebens im Einklang mit der Natur, von der Apfel- und Heuernte und vielem mehr.

Hören Sie dreizehn lustige Kurzgeschichten des Großmeisters für Humor und Satire: Wie man einen Schnupfen kuriert, Tot oder lebendig, Herrn Blokes eingesandter Artikel, Der berühmte Springfrosch von Calaveras County, Die Ameise, Was mir der Professor erzählte, Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache, Eine schlaflose Nacht in Heilbronn, Es ist gefährlich im Bette zu liegen, Meine Uhr, Adams Tagebuch, Wie Mark Twain in Newark angeführt wurde, Die Eine-Million-Pfundnote.

This humorous travel book, based on Twain's stagecoach journey through the American West and his adventures in the Pacific islands, is full of colorful caricatures of outlandish locals and detailed sketches of frontier life. Roughing It describes how the narrator, a polite greenhorn from the East, is initiated into the rough-and-tumble society of the frontier.

Mit dem Humor ist es ja so eine Sache. Jeder meint, ihn zu besitzen und beweist oft kläglich das Gegenteil...

Mark Twain was the great American wit. There have been many novelists but only two great American wits, Mark Twain and James Thurber. Listen to Twain's great comments for the ages.

"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.

Here are five of Mark Twain's best short stories, including "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" - classic humor from the author of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and other great American novels.

Uno dei capolavori della letteratura americana, che riesce a coniugare il gusto per l'avventura a un'esilarante (e nostalgica) vena umoristica...

The story of two brothers, the white sheep and the black sheep of the family, is narrated in one of Twain's most satiric stories.

Huck arrives at the Phelps', where he is warmly greeted. The Phelps assume Huck is their nephew, Tom, Tom Sawyer, whose arrival is expected.

Back on their raft, Huck and Jim pick up two strangers. They pretend to be royalty. Huck and Jim wait on them, calling them "your majesty" and other titles. Huck realizes they're lying but doesn't want to cause trouble and continues with the charade.

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.

Jackie Cooper and Orson Welles star in this performance of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.