The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain, Robert Schoolcraft (Illustrator)

Overview

Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit ...

In this 1876 masterpiece of American literature by Mark Twain, set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666254808
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/26/2021
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.58(d)
Age Range:	7 - 9 Years

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut