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  • Published: 6 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9780451530936
  • Imprint: Signet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $14.99

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer




The classic adventures of one of American literature's most beloved characters.

The classic adventures of one of American literature’s most beloved characters from Mark Twain, one of America’s best-loved writers.

Here is a lighthearted excursion into boyhood, a nostalgic return into the simple, rural Missouri world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, and Aunt Polly. It is a universal world of attending school and playing hooky, pranks and punishments, villains and desperate adventure, seen through the eyes of a boy who might be the young Mark Twain himself.

There is sheer delight in Tom Sawyer—even in the darkest moments, affection and wit permeate its pages. For adults it re-creates the vanished dreams of youth. For younger readers it unveils the boundaries of tantalizing horizons still to come. And for everyone, it reveals the mind and heart of one of America’s best-loved writers.

With an Introduction by Robert Tilton
and an Afterword by Geoffrey Sanborn

  • Published: 6 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9780451530936
  • Imprint: Signet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $14.99

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About the author

Mark Twain

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain spent his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, which forms the setting for his two greatest works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Trying his hand at printing, typesetting and then gold-mining, the former steam-boat pilot eventually found his calling in journalism and travel writing. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner, Twain died in 1910 after a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.

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Praise for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"He is a man of force...a blacksmith who stands at his anvil with the fire burning and strikes hard and hits the mark every time."--Maxim Gorky