The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain.

By: Twain, Mark [author.]
Language: English Publisher: London : Macmillan Popular Classics, 2018Description: 199 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529010152Subject(s): Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction | Boys -- Missouri -- Juvenile fiction | Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Boys -- Missouri -- Fiction | Mississippi River -- Juvenile fiction | Missouri -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Children's stories.Summary: Spiffed about being made to whitewash the fence on a Sundaymorning, Tom Sawyer tricks one of his friends to do the work forhim, as he sits on the pavement, happily munching on an apple.Thus begins the series of Tom's adventures and misadventures. Orphaned and staying with his Aunt Polly, the mischievous Tommanages to create quite a storm in the small village. He runsaway to an uninhabited island, falls in love, digs up treasureand saves an innocent man. Mark Twain's timeless story of TomSawyer will take you through a journey of evolving friendships, budding romance and thrilling adventures Source: Publisher
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Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

Spiffed about being made to whitewash the fence on a Sundaymorning, Tom Sawyer tricks one of his friends to do the work forhim, as he sits on the pavement, happily munching on an apple.Thus begins the series of Tom's adventures and misadventures. Orphaned and staying with his Aunt Polly, the mischievous Tommanages to create quite a storm in the small village. He runsaway to an uninhabited island, falls in love, digs up treasureand saves an innocent man. Mark Twain's timeless story of TomSawyer will take you through a journey of evolving friendships, budding romance and thrilling adventures
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