The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

By (author) Twain, Mark
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Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe?
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The classic boy-hero of American literature.

Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Missippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped a hanging. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe?

''In this book Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger to Pynchon'' Guardian

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The hero is one of the most endearing in literature
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Twain shares a talent for well-observed caricature with Dickens...adventure, social commentary and good humour runs though his fiction
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In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger''s The Catcher In The Rye to Pynchon''s Mason And Dixon, in mapping a fluvial, free-flowing adventure
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Twain had a gift for reliving the innermost feelings of growing up, the insecurity, fears and hopes that lie beneath the swagger that young boys maintain. He turned them into literature
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This classic story will stay with you through life, and always remind you of the things that you knew were important when you first read it
Biographical note:

Mark Twain''s real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on 30 November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Twain worked first as a printer and then as a pilot on Mississippi steamboats. The name Mark Twain is a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep. Twain later worked as a prospector, a journalist and a publisher.

Twain wrote many books but his most famous works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). He is also well known as the author of The Prince and the Pauper (1882) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court (1889).

Twain moved around a great deal during his life and lived in Europe for some years. He finally settled near Redding in Connecticut where he died on 21 April 1910.

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The classic boy-hero of American literature