Ein Tischgespräch

Geschrieben von Mark Twain

Erzählt von Leon Heinc

Auf unserer Schweizerreise waren wir, ich und mein Reisebegleiter Harris, einmal im ›Schweizerhof‹ in Luzern abgestiegen, wo wir ein Tischgespräch hatten, an das ich zeitlebens denken werde.
Man ging um 7½ zur Tafel, an der sich eine Menge Angehöriger der verschiedensten Nationalitäten zusammenfanden; doch ließen sich an den ungeheuer langen Tischen besser Kleider als Menschen beobachten, da man die Gesichter meist nur in der Perspektive zu sehen bekam. Das Frühstück dagegen wurde an kleinen runden Tischen eingenommen, und wenn man das Glück hatte, einen Platz in der Mitte des Saales zu erhalten, konnte man so viele Gesichter studieren, als man wünschte.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Waldenberger Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29. Okt. 2018
• ISBN: 9783990834633

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.