The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Novel

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 28, 2017 - Fiction - 218 pages
The classic, in all its glory - though what many forget is how well this tale of American boyhood holds up even after nearly 150 years. Tom Sawyer, his best friend Huck Finn, his would-be girlfriend Becky Thatcher, and his aunt Polly teach and learn about life, death, race and painting fences in a "typical" 19th century Midwestern town that bears a striking resemblance to Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. On one level, this is the prototypical tale of one boy's innocence and how he lost it, but it's also a profound evocation of the national character that Twain, an odd combination of independent thinker and moralist, clearly thought needed some analyzing.

About the author (2017)

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Novel
AuthorMark Twain
PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
ISBN1546983775, 9781546983774
Length218 pages
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