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Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim travel down the Mississippi River having adventures and meeting interesting characters on the way. But Jim is a runaway slave and the boys must be careful to avoid trouble. This classic tale of boyhood adventure echoes the authors own childhood along the banks of this great river. It is also a portrayal of a society where slavery still exists.

"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class.

Includes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee, The Prince and the Pauper, and more.

« Si vous n'avez pas lu les aventures de Tom Sawyer, vous ne savez pas qui je suis... mais ça n'a pas d'importance. C'est M. Mark Twain qui a fait ce livre, et ce qu'il y raconte, c'est la vérité vraie, presque toujours. Il exagère quelquefois, mais il n'y dit guère de menteries. Bah ! ce n'est pas bien grave... Ça arrive à tout le monde de mentir de temps à autre ! »

Though TOM SAWYER, Twain's "other" coming-of-age tale, has much in common with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, including some of the characters, its hero is not the maverick iconoclast that Huck Finn is. As Twain traces the comic adventures of the inventive young Tom, he effectively and lovingly recreat...

Mark Twain''s entertaining story chronicles the adventures of spritely Tom Sawyer, friend to the notorious Huckleberry Finn. Whatever mischief he gets up to, Tom always ends up on top and the envy of

Tom Canty, un mendigo que ha crecido en el ambiente conflictivo y miserable de los barrios más pobres de la inglaterra del siglo XVI, y un príncipe, Eduardo Tudor, nada menos que el hijo de Enrique VIII, tienen poco en comun. Pero por esas coincidencias curiosas del destino se parecen en el fisico y en el caracter, y eso hace que la vida los envuelva en una extraña aventura que resulta tan apasionante como peligrosa para ambos. Imposible predecir lo que ocurrira... Solo al final de esta genial novela de Mark Twain (1835-1910) hay una respuesta. Por algo la han gozado de principio a fin los adolescentes de varias generaciones, confirmando que es una de las obras mas famosas de la literatura universal.

En la Inglaterra del siglo XVI, dos niños idénticos pero de mundos opuestos -un príncipe y un mendigo- intercambian sus vidas. Mientras uno descubre la dureza de la pobreza, el otro experimenta el poder y las intrigas de la realeza.Con cierta ironia, Mark Twain retrata la desigualdad social y el valor de la misericordia. Una aventura que refleja los contrastes entre riqueza y pobreza a traves de los ojos de dos niños.