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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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Description for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Paperback. Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
The classic boy-hero of American literature.
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099540892
SKU
V9780099540892
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-40
About Mark Twain
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on 30 November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Twain worked first as a printer and then as a pilot on Mississippi steamboats. The name Mark Twain is a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep. Twain later worked as a prospector, a journalist and ... Read more
Reviews for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The hero is one of the most endearing in literature
Daily Telegraph
Twain shares a talent for well-observed caricature with Dickens...adventure, social commentary and good humour runs though his fiction
Sunday Express
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye to Pynchon's Mason And Dixon, ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Twain shares a talent for well-observed caricature with Dickens...adventure, social commentary and good humour runs though his fiction
Sunday Express
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye to Pynchon's Mason And Dixon, ... Read more