The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

   By Mark Twain

   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. 

Usefule links

• Classic-Literature.co.uk – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (full text in html format), Mark Twain (1876)
• MTwain.com – The Complete Works of Mark Twain (searchable, indexed Twain library, including complete Tom Sawyer text)
• Titiland.com – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (online book in html)
• Virginia.edu – Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (illustrated public domain text)

• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, available for free via Project Gutenberg

Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain’s tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life and array of irresistible characters—the awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Aunt Polly, and the lovely, beguiling Becky—as well as such unforgettable incidents as whitewashing a fence, swearing an oath in blood, and getting lost in a dark and labyrinthine cave. Below Tom Sawyer’s sunny surface lurk hints of a darker reality, of youthful innocence and na??veté confronting the cruelty, hypocrisy, and foolishness of the adult world—a theme that would become more pronounced in Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Despite such suggestions, Tom Sawyer remains Twain’s joyful ode to the endless possibilities of childhood.

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