The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Twain, Mark

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1995. Reviewer: A 12-year old reader One of the greatest authors ever, Mark Twain, has given an extraordinary gift to readers everywhere with this book. Children and adults alike will love this book. It is a wonderful adventure of boys being boys. You know, getting into trouble. Tom Sawyer and his friends will use their boyish charm to fill your imagination with wonderful thoughts. Then Injun Joe will fill your heart with hate over his greed and willingness to kill.. ISBN: 0553211285. Gently read . Light Spine Line & Twist. Mass Market Paperback. Good. ADVENTURE ADVENTURERS FICTION MISSISSIPPI RIVER MISSOURI CHILDREN S SAWYER TOM FICTITIOUS CHARACTER JUVENILE GENERAL ACTION CLASSICS PEOPLE PLACES UNITED STATES.

Book summary

Though TOM SAWYER, Twain's "other" coming-of-age tale, has much in common with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, including some of the characters, its hero is not the maverick iconoclast that Huck Finn is. As Twain traces the comic adventures of the inventive young Tom, he effectively and lovingly recreates the pastoral world of his own Hannibal, Missouri, childhood, including a portrait of his brother Henry (who died young in a shipboard explosion) as Tom's younger brother, Sid. Because Tom Sawyer's battles with prim conformity are always innocent and uncontroversial, the novel is not a ground-breaking masterpiece like HUCKEBERRY FINN. It is essentially a book for young readers--and a great one.

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