A Ghost Story & Other Short Stories

Name: A Ghost Story & Other Short Stories
Brand: Saga Egmont International
SKU: 9788726646191
Price: 8.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 978-8-726-64619-1

de Mark Twain (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Saga Egmont International

mars 2022

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"All was still. All but my own heart--I could hear it beat. Presently the bedclothes began to slip away slowly toward the foot of the bed, as if some one were pulling them!" In Mark Twain’s "A Ghost Story" from 1875, the narrator rents a room in an old New York City building with upper stories long since given up to dust, cobwebs and silence. On his first night, he experiences something so dreadful that he convinces himself it must be a dream. It isn’t until he finds a giant footprint in the ashes near the hearth, that he realizes something more, perhaps sinister, is at play. Mark Twain masters the balance between horror and humor in this thrilling short story inspired by an infamous real-life nineteenth century hoax.Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (1835-1910), was an American humorist, lecturer, journalist and novelist who acquired international fame for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as well as for his travel narratives, especially "The Innocents Abroad", "Roughing It", and "Life on the Mississippi". Twain transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America’s most beloved writers.

Auteur

Mark Twain (auteur)

Mark Twain, de son vrai nom Samuel Clemens, est né en 1835 dans le Missouri et mort en 1910 dans le Connecticut. Il est l’un des premiers auteurs américains à utiliser ses origines sudistes pour créer ses personnages et situations romanesques. Lorsque la guerre de Sécession éclate, il fuit dans les montagnes du Nevada et devient chercheur d’or, cette expérience donnera lieu à des romans discrets (À la dure, en 1872). C’est avec la publication en 1876 de Tom Sawyer puis en 1885 d’Huckleberry Finn, que Mark Twain devient connu du grand public. La reconnaissance littéraire ne viendra que plus tard, avec les commentaires d’Hemingway et de Faulkner, qui voient en Mark Twain le père fondateur du roman américain.

Auteur(s) : Mark Twain