The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
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"It's altogether the best boy's story I ever read," novelist William Dean Howells wrote to his friend Mark Twain. "It will be an immense success." Of course he was right. Generations have relished wily Tom Sawyer's solution to the problem of how to whitewash a fence. From schoolroom to church, from graveyard to cave, they have envied the vivid childhood of a scamp in provincial St.Petersburg. "I wish I had been on that island," wrote Howells, recalling just one of the redoutable Tom's adventures: and who would even think of disagreeing? From young love to young fear, Tom runs the gamut of childhood experience for us all.
Mark Twain went on to devote a substantial fiction to Tom's friend Huckleberry Finn, but this was the book that went straight to the heart of the child in every one of us.
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS was born in Missouri in 1835 and adopted the name MARK TWAIN for newspaper work in the early 1860s after working as a printer and a Mississipi pilot for several years. Short stories made his name, and...
Mark Twain went on to devote a substantial fiction to Tom's friend Huckleberry Finn, but this was the book that went straight to the heart of the child in every one of us.
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS was born in Missouri in 1835 and adopted the name MARK TWAIN for newspaper work in the early 1860s after working as a printer and a Mississipi pilot for several years. Short stories made his name, and...
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