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The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1876 · United States · Novel · ~270 pages

A clever, mischievous boy schemes, sweet-talks, and plays his way through a sleepy Mississippi river town, whitewashing fences, courting Becky Thatcher, and stumbling one moonlit night into real danger. The sunlit companion to Huckleberry Finn.

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Why read it

The great novel of American boyhood, funny, nostalgic, and quietly wise about the small-town world it captures. Pure pleasure, and the doorway to Twain's deeper masterpiece.

Themes
SettingMissouri, 1840s

A drowsy town on the Mississippi before the Civil War, seen through the golden haze of memory, where summers were endless and a boy’s biggest worry was Sunday school.

About the author

Mark Twain (1835–1910), born Samuel Clemens, was a Mississippi steamboat pilot turned the funniest and most American of writers. He drew this idyll of boyhood from his own Missouri childhood.