The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel by Mark Twain, published on June 9, 1876, about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the 1830s and 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn; originally a commercial failure, the book went on to become the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime. Along with its 1885 sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it is considered by many to be a masterpiece of American literature.
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1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Wikipedia)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...is a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876.
1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Wikipedia)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...is a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876.
1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Wikipedia)
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a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Wikipedia)
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Being the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it is told in the first person by Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn.
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