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Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
This classic novel of childhood is set in fictional St Petersburg, a town based on Mark Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain's recounting of Tom Sawyer's many escapades is by turns nostalgic, satiric, wise, and hilarious.
While this novel is often considered mainly as the precursor to Twain's great work The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it is abundantly worth considering for its own deft and loving transformation of autobiography into fiction.
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?
" . . . although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in."
Details
- Format : Slim 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Good (Cover a tiny bit of wear, book Very Good, almost As New)
- Category : Fiction - Children's Fiction
- Published : (This Edition 2004 - Paperview / Children's Classics Collection)
- ISBN : 9771781444000
- SKU : B002586
- PPC : LL400gm
- RRP : £2.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
1 of The Children's Classics Collection (No' 12) promoted by The Daily Record.
External Reviews
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (Mark Twain) in 1876, is a most engaging children’s book. It describes an American boy’s childhood in a rural Southern town in the 19th century. I read this many years ago, and always promised myself that I’d read it again, and you know something? It didn’t disappoint. There’s a reason that it’s a classic. Just lovely."
"There are few children's stories as memorable for boys as Tom Sawyer. Whether it is pre-adolescent fascination with girls, getting away with not working, or a late night adventure - Tom Sawyer has it all in spades. My kid absolutely loves this book and we go back to it every few years over and over again. It is a true reading pleasure which you should absolutely not deprive yourself of." - Goodreads Reviews.
The Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humourist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humourist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".
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