"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg - whether getting his friends to whitewash a fence for him, or escaping the demands of his vigilant Aunt Polly - have won him the hearts of generations. This book should be of interest to general readers, those interested in classic American fiction, students of literature and American culture at 6th form, undergraduate, and postgraduate level.
This book is part of a book series called Worlds Classics .
This book is aimed at children in university.
There are 292 pages in this book. This book was published 1993 by Oxford University Press .
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humourist.
This book contains the following story:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations. 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?
