Basilius Mummelpelz und Hieronymus Kragenpeter

Geschrieben von Mark Twain

Erzählt von Helmut Hafner

Der Bär Basilius Mummelpelz stand vor der Wohnung seines Vetters, des Kragenbären. „Hieronymus Kragenpeter, bist du zu Hause?“ fragte er und klopfte mit der Tatze an die Höhlenwandung. Drinnen regte sich nichts. Nur ein schwaches Brummen war hörbar. Basilius Mummelpelz klopfte energischer.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Krawuzi Verlag Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20. Juni 2015
• ISBN: 9783990421765

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.