The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

Overview

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER follows the life of a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the antebellum South. Set in the fictional Missouri town of St. Petersburg (based on Mark Twain's hometown of Hannibal), young Tom Sawyer is a mischievous lad who is constantly getting into scrapes with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn. The two get into various misadventures including playing hooky, running away to become pirates, and inadvertently witnessing a murder.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013829336
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	12/10/2011
Series:	Halcyon Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	639 KB

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain, was an American writer and humorist. Apprenticed to a printer, Twain became an expert typesetter and riverboat pilot before trying his hand at goldmining, which was unsuccessful. Twain then became a journalist, writing a series of successful short stories. Twain's fame as a writer was firmly established by the 1876 publication of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, and THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN in 1884. When Twain died in 1910 he was hailed as the "greatest American humorist of his age." William Faulkner later wrote that he was "the father of American literature."

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut