The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

Few books have taken so deep and enduring a hold on the American imagination as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Younger readers delight in the sheer pleasure of following the rollicking, mischievous adventures of Tom, a consummate prankster with a quick wit. Yet older readers recognize the somber undercurrents lurking dangerously beneath the secure and wondrous world of boyhood. Through the novel's nostalgic portraits of life on the Mississippi River and humorous escapades from the famous episods of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of ınjun Jıe Mark Twain explores the deeper, darker themes of the adult world Tom is one day destined to join. A classic that has lot neither its popularity nor its capacity to delight Tom Sawyer is a treasure of American literature.

This edition features a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rammussen that situates the novel for a contemporary audience.