The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer would rather do anything than whitewash a fence or go to school. With Huck Finn he goes treasure hunting, runs away to be a pirate, and one night in a graveyard witnesses a murder. By Mark Twain (1876). A public-domain classic.
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Tom Sawyer lives in a small town on the Mississippi with his aunt, and he is very good at avoiding work and very good at getting into trouble. Over one long summer he falls out with his teacher, wins a girl’s attention, runs away to an island, and ends up somewhere he should never have been at midnight.
Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens, published it in 1876. The town of St. Petersburg is made up, but it is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain grew up. He followed it with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is a darker and more serious book about the same river.
- Themes
- Boyhood, mischief, freedom, small-town life
- Good for
- A funny, fast adventure; reading with children; anyone curious about 19th-century America
- Worth noticing
- How Twain lets Tom be clever and foolish within a single page.
Chapters
- 1Chapter 111 min · 15 Oct
- 2Chapter 29 min · 15 Oct
- 3Chapter 310 min · 15 Oct
- 4Chapter 415 min · 15 Oct
- 5Chapter 59 min · 15 Oct
- 6Chapter 616 min · 15 Oct
- 7Chapter 79 min · 15 Oct
- 8Chapter 88 min · 15 Oct
- 9Chapter 910 min · 15 Oct
- 10Chapter 109 min · 15 Oct
- 11Chapter 117 min · 15 Oct
- 12Chapter 128 min · 15 Oct
- 13Chapter 1311 min · 15 Oct
- 14Chapter 149 min · 15 Oct
- 15Chapter 158 min · 15 Oct
- 16Chapter 1614 min · 15 Oct
- 17Chapter 175 min · 15 Oct
- 18Chapter 1813 min · 15 Oct
- 19Chapter 194 min · 15 Oct
- 20Chapter 208 min · 15 Oct
- 21Chapter 2110 min · 15 Oct
- 22Chapter 225 min · 15 Oct
- 23Chapter 239 min · 15 Oct
- 24Chapter 242 min · 15 Oct
- 25Chapter 259 min · 15 Oct
- 26Chapter 2612 min · 15 Oct
- 27Chapter 275 min · 15 Oct
- 28Chapter 285 min · 15 Oct
- 29Chapter 2912 min · 15 Oct
- 30Chapter 3014 min · 15 Oct
- 31Chapter 3113 min · 15 Oct
- 32Chapter 325 min · 15 Oct
- 33Chapter 3315 min · 15 Oct
- 34Chapter 344 min · 15 Oct
- 35Chapter 358 min · 15 Oct
- 36Conclusion1 min · 15 Oct
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