Reise um die Welt 4

Geschrieben von Mark Twain

Erzählt von Friedrich Frieden

Mark Twain begibt sich auf Weltreise und uns wird das Vergnügen gewährt, mitkommen zu dürfen.
Zuerst klärt uns Twain über die australischen Squatters auf, ein Kartell skrupelloser Gutsbesitzer, deren Grundstücke, Wohnresidenzen und Macht sogar größer waren als die von europäischen Königshäusern. Dann wird anhand eines mündlich überlieferten Missionarsberichts verdeutlicht, warum und inwiefern Unterschiede und Parallelen in den christlichen und hinduistischen Götterwelten auftreten. Nach einer Schilderung der beliebtesten Gesellschaftsvergnügungen des australischen Bürgertums wird uns eine nette Geschichte präsentiert, in welcher ein junger, arbeitsloser Glücksritter mit zu Hilfenahme eines toten Haifischs den Deal seines Lebens einfädelt. Im Anschluss erfährt Twain von einem dubiosen Vorlese-Doppelgänger, der sich in Australien für ihn ausgibt und uns wird die Gründungslegende Sydneys offenbart.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: LILYLA Hörbuch-Editionen
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10. Juli 2023
• ISBN: 9783969788301

Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a setting which would serve as inspiration for some of his most famous works. After an apprenticeship at a local printer’s shop, he worked as a typesetter and contributor for a newspaper run by his brother Orion. Before embarking on a career as a professional writer, Twain spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi and as a miner in Nevada. In 1865, inspired by a story he heard at Angels Camp, California, he published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” earning him international acclaim for his abundant wit and mastery of American English. He spent the next decade publishing works of travel literature, satirical stories and essays, and his first novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel about a mischievous young boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1884 he released a direct sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which follows one of Tom’s friends on an epic adventure through the heart of the American South. Addressing themes of race, class, history, and politics, Twain captures the joys and sorrows of boyhood while exposing and condemning American racism. Despite his immense success as a writer and popular lecturer, Twain struggled with debt and bankruptcy toward the end of his life, but managed to repay his creditors in full by the time of his passing at age 74. Curiously, Twain’s birth and death coincided with the appearance of Halley’s Comet, a fitting tribute to a visionary writer whose steady sense of morality survived some of the darkest periods of American history.