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Amerikanische Erzählungen 1
Amerikanische Erzählungen 1
Amerikanische Erzählungen 1
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Amerikanische Erzählungen 1

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In der LILYLA Hörbuch-Edition „Amerikanische Erzählungen“ widmen wir uns amerikanisch-englischsprachigen Autoren zu, deren Werke in Ausdruck, Authentizität und Sprachgewalt Einzug in den erlauchten Kreis der Welt-Literatur erhalten haben und deren Wirkungskreis nach wie vor Jung und Alt bewegt, denn Zeitlosigkeit und Unvergänglichkeit ihrer Gedanken haben über alle Generationen hinweg Bestand und ihren festen Platz in allen aufgeklärten Gesellschaften sicher.
Der Sprecher Friedrich Frieden taucht in die Gedanken-Welt der zeitlosen Literatur ab und verleiht dieser mit seinem außergewöhnlichen Sprach-, Rhythmik-, Tempo-, und Authentizitätsstil gelebten Ausdruck. Inhalt: Mark Twain: Nationalökonomie, Mark Twain: Mrs. McWilliams und das Gewitter, Mark Twain: Meine Uhr, Herman Melville: Bartleby, Jack London: Das Gesetz des Lebens, Jack London: Der Sohn des Wolfes, Mark Twain: Der berühmte Springfrosch von Calaveras, Mark Twain: Das Erlebnis der McWilliamses mit der Rachendiphtherie, Henry James: Die Geschichte eines Meisterwerks, Mark Twain: Die Eine-Million-Pfund-Note, Mark Twain: Burleske Autobiographie.
LanguageDeutsch
Release dateOct 1, 2017
ISBN9783959891288
Amerikanische Erzählungen 1
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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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