The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Paperback, 314 pages

English language

Published 1984 by Watermill.

ISBN:
978-0-89375-358-0
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OCLC Number:
35302475

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Now what's that rascally young boy up to this time? Seems like Tom Sawyer is always getting himself in or out of trouble. His wild imagination and hilarious antics have given his Aunt Polly more gray hairs than she can count. Like the time Tom gave the cat a stiff dose of Pain-killer...or the time the schoolmaster caught him and Joe Harper pestering a pet tick during class...or the time Tom and Joe and Huck Finn ran away from home to become pirates on the Mississippi..

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This review is cross-posted from my blog here: timefarer.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/

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of the most memorable chapters from my childhood English textbooks was Tom Sawyer, fooling his friends to paint a fence. From then on, Tom Sawyer, his buddy Huckleberry Finn, that period of US history and author Mark Twain have continued to appear so many times in my readings that I simply had to pick up this classic when I saw it. On its surface, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is filled with fun stories centered around Tom, that happen in St. Petersburg, a fictional village along the Mississippi river. Tom seems to have lost his parents a long time ago and is being brought up by his Aunt Polly, a big hearted naive woman and her children Sid and Mary. Tom is a hyper-active clever rascal, who regularly creates trouble at school and gets switched by teachers on …

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Subjects

  • 19th Century
  • Historical
  • Fiction
  • Classic
  • American
  • Young Adult
  • Literature