The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author: Donald McKay, Guy Cardwell, Beverly Lyon Clark, Frederique Voulyze, Garrick Hagon
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 9780753454787
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Publisher : Kingfisher Books

  

Though TOM SAWYER, Twain`s other coming-of-age tale, has much in common with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, including some of the characters, its hero is not the maverick iconoclast that Huck Finn is. As Twain traces the comic adventures of the inventive young Tom, he effectively and lovingly recreates the pastoral world of his own Hannibal, Missouri, childhood, including a portrait of his brother Henry (who died young in a shipboard explosion) as Tom`s younger brother, Sid. Because Tom Sawyer`s battles with prim conformity are always innocent and uncontroversial, the novel is not a ground-breaking masterpiece like HUCKEBERRY FINN. It is essentially a book for young readers--and a great one.