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  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409059790
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer




The classic boy-hero of American literature

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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

  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409059790
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

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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

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

Guardian

The hero is one of the most endearing in literature

Daily Telegraph

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

Katy Guest, The Independent

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

Daily Mail

Twain shares a talent for well-observed caricature with Dickens...adventure, social commentary and good humour runs though his fiction

Sunday Express