The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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This edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer includes a Biographical Note, Preface, and Afterword by Keith Neilson.

About the Author(s)

Mark Twain

Mark Twain was a humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists and European royalty.

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Excerpt

CHAPTER 1
 
Tom Plays, Fights, and Hides
 
 
“Tom!”
No answer.
“Tom!”
No answer.
“What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!”
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for “style,” not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove lids just as well.

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