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Loading... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)by Mark Twain
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Excellent humor. Twain is pure wit and humor. The language carries you away. Oh, and if you think this is for young boys (it can be), you are mistaken. I really believe adults will get much more out of it than any young teen. (  )wvlibrarydude | Jul 8, 2009 |   Tom Sawyer is a typical Southern boy looking for adventure. I don't think there are many young boys that would skin a cat or fake his own death so that he might attend the funeral, but the mischief of such a boy has always been there...and will always be there, too! Tom lives with his auntie and while he is well loved he is always looking for ways to run away. His sidekick, Huck Finn is eager to join him in adventures "down river." Both are "smarties" as my grandfather would say. Showing off for their peers, and besting the adults -there is never a dull moment in Tom Sawyer's world. (  )SeriousGrace | Jul 7, 2009 | The beginning of all the Tom and Huck adventures, with the boy Tom Sawyer who befriends Huck Finn, and creates mischief all over town and in school, before coming into a large fortune of money. I enjoyed this story more than I did Adventures of Huck Finn, however they were both about the same, except one boy is mannered and the other is wild, and their adventures of are different sorts. It’s hard to see why this one didn’t make it on the 1,001 Books list when Huck Finn did, as they are both amazing journey’s. blondierocket | Jun 28, 2009 | This novel is full of high adventure of the kind that has disappeared for most children today. Tom and friends are full of imaginative play that they carry out in the wooded areas around their town. They play hooky and trade in junk and have all kinds of superstitious explanations for the world around them. While this book doesn't have any profound themes, it pictures of way of life, mostly gone, in such vivid detail that it seems to come to life again. ( )tjsjohanna | Jun 27, 2009 | Very Good, well written and funny. There is a reason why it is a classic. (  )charlie68 | Jun 25, 2009 | 0.022 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0520235754, Paperback)This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their cure for warts ("spunk water" and dead cats), Tom's puppy love for Becky Thatcher, the boys playing "pirate" on Jackson's Island.This Mark Twain Library text is the only edition since the first (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the "200 rattling pictures" Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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