The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Sterling Children's Classics)

Mark Twain's contribution to the literature of leisure life. In THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, we meet Tom -- a pint-sized entrepreneur, a ladies man, an evocative storyteller with a gifted imagination, a devoted nephew to his Aunt Polly and a typical 12-year old boy in rural 19th century America. The American public so delighted in how Tom got kids to pay him to paint the...more

Mark Twain's contribution to the literature of leisure life. In THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, we meet Tom -- a pint-sized entrepreneur, a ladies man, an evocative storyteller with a gifted imagination, a devoted nephew to his Aunt Polly and a typical 12-year old boy in rural 19th century America. The American public so delighted in how Tom got kids to pay him to paint the fence for him that Twain did a follow-up calling it THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and it was the best-selling sequel of the nineteenth century.   hide