The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of Twain's works during his lifetime.
Though overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is considered by many to be a masterpiece of American literature. It was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter.
Excerpted from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer on Wikipedia.
Author | Mark Twain |
Country | United States |
Genre | Bildungsromans, Adventure, Children's Literature, Humorous stories |
Copyright | Public domain worldwide. |
Book cover | "Tom Sawyer fishing" Image: True Williams|wikipedia |
Ebooks | Project Gutenberg |
Scans | Google-digitized |
Audio | Librivox | Internet Archive Reader: Group, Dramatic Readings 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 |
Read online | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |