The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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| Author | Mark Twain |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Various |
| Cover artist | Various |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's books |
| Publisher | Signet (pictured) |
Publication date | 1876 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 235 |
| Followed by | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a famous novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South. Published 1876, Mark Twain's popular tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, and tells of the childhood adventures of Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn: racing bugs, impressing girls - particularly Becky Thatcher - with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. The best-known passage in the book describes how Sawyer persuades his friends to white-wash, or paint, a long fence for him.
This was the first novel written on a typewriter.[citation needed]
Literary significance & criticism
Sales of Tom Sawyer were lukewarm at best. It initially sold less than a third as many copies as Twain's Innocents Abroad, which sold about 70,000 copies during that time period. By the time of Twain's death, however, Tom Sawyer was both an American classic and a bestseller.
Tom Sawyer also appears in three other Mark Twain books:
Of these, Huckleberry Finn, in which Tom Sawyer is only a minor character, is considered to have, by far, the most literary merit.
See also
External links
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at Project Gutenberg
- Classic-Literature.co.uk – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (full text in html format), Mark Twain (1876)
- MTwain.com – The Complete Works of Mark Twain (searchable, indexed Twain library, including complete Tom Sawyer text)
- Titiland.com – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (online book in html)
- Virginia.edu – Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (illustrated public domain text)
- Free typeset PDF ebook of Tom Sawyer and other Twain books optimized for printing, plus extensive Twain reading list
Gutenberg project
Subscription service
- DUCHS.com – Tom Sawyer (RSS "feedreader" edition: subscription service e-mails a portion of the text each day)
Synopses
- CliffsNotes.com – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- SparkNotes.com – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer