The Adventures of Tom Sawyer : A 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

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. Contents : Tom Sawyer is a kid that lives with his Aunt Polly and his relative, Sid. The story is set in the Town of "St. Petersburg", Missouri, enlivened by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a fragrant summoning of the life in the Mississippi River town and the lives of those individuals who live on its shores. A solemn undercurrent courses through the high diversion and audacious wistfulness of the novel, in any case, for underneath the purity of youth lie the disparities of grown-up reality—base feelings and superstitions, murder and vengeance, starvation and subjection. Touching and clever, and continually charming, this book is, and presumably dependably will be, a much-read American exemplary that merits reading and re-reading. The books demonstrates the delight of adolescence and additionally the acknowledgment of progress.. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a wild experience shot through with amusingness, sentiment and awesome spades loaded with energy. What's increasingly the unadulterated happiness forever that Tom, his closest companion Huckleberry Finn and alternate young men of Twain's creative energy approach their wild business is a delight to view. It takes one back and makes one pine for a more straightforward time when the most squeezing business was whether to put on a show to be privateers or go chasing for treasure.