The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Twain, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780192738288
• ISBN10: 0192738283
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-12-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Meet the boy who can find trouble without even looking. At school, at home, in church, and outdoors, if there's mischief about Tom Sawyer will be in the thick of it! In addition to his everyday stunts and trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher, Tom experiences a dramatic turn of events when he witnesses a murder, runs away, and returns to attend his own funeral and testify in court. A classic children's tale and one of the Common Core State Standards Initiative's selections of recommended texts.

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Author Biography

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1935 in Missouri, USA. He trained and worked as a printer until 1857 when he became an apprentice pilot on the steamboats of the Mississippi River. After a brief spell as a miner in Nevada he took up journalism and began using the pen name Mark Twain. Some years of travelling and lecturing followed and in 1870 he married and settled in Connecticut where, in 1876, he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published eight years later. Clemens suffered great tragedy in later life with the death of his wife and two daughters. He died in 1910.