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Loading... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainSeries: Tom Sawyer (Omnibus 1-2)
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451528646, Paperback)Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn He has no mother, his father is a drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He's Huck Finn-liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. And on a raft floating down the Mississippi, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. Now includes a new introduction. Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679405844, Hardcover)(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: Tom Sawyer is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; Huckleberry Finn, the book Hemingway said was the source of all the American fiction that followed it, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a tremendous parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world. Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0785279512, Hardcover)Leather look with gold gilded pages.Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451511980, Paperback)Tom Sawyer: among America's undisputed contributions to the world's cast of unforgettable characters.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) |
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