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Mark Twain: Die Box: 20 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten
Mark Twain: Die Box: 20 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten
Mark Twain: Die Box: 20 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten
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Mark Twain: Die Box: 20 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten

Written by Mark Twain and Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by Jürgen Fritsche

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Mark Twain, beliebtester Schriftsteller Amerikas, war zweifellos ein großer Meister des humorvollen Reiseberichts. Keiner konnte die Eigenheiten eines Landes so pointiert beschreiben wie er. Und auch wenn er sich gerne spöttisch äußerte, ist es doch so, dass man am liebsten gleich selbst hinfahren möchte. Denn eines ist sicher: Auch hundert Jahre später sind seine Einsichten immer noch aktuell - und äußerst unterhaltsam!
LanguageDeutsch
Release dateMay 13, 2013
ISBN9783955970512
Mark Twain: Die Box: 20 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten
Author

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.

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