The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

by Mark Twain

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Overview

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of Twain's works during his lifetime. Though overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is considered by many to be a masterpiece of American literature. It was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter. Contents: Tom Sawyer is a kid that lives with his Aunt Polly and his relative, Sid. The story is set in the Town of "St. Petersburg", Missouri, enlivened by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a fragrant summoning of the life in the Mississippi River town and the lives of those individuals who live on its shores. A solemn undercurrent courses through the high diversion and audacious wistfulness of the novel, in any case, for underneath the purity of youth lie the disparities of grown-up reality-base feelings and superstitions, murder and vengeance, starvation and subjection. Touching and clever, and continually charming, this book is, and presumably dependably will be, a much-read American exemplary that merits reading and re-reading. The books demonstrates the delight of adolescence and additionally the acknowledgment of progress.. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a wild experience shot through with amusingness, sentiment and awesome spades loaded with energy. What's increasingly the unadulterated happiness forever that Tom, his closest companion Huckleberry Finn and alternate young men of Twain's creative energy approach their wild business is a delight to view. It takes one back and makes one pine for a more straightforward time when the most squeezing business was whether to put on a sho

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9782382742723
Publisher: Culturea
Publication date: 05/02/2022
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.42(d)
Language: French

About the Author

About The Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut
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