The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Drawing from his own experience, Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clements) violates the rules of the times and creates a novel of boyhood without the preaching common in other boy's novels of this time.

First published in 1876, "Tom Sawyer" introduced to everyone those memorable characters: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Injun Joe, and Becky Thacher. Tom Sawyer, as a character. went on to appear in two more books and in "Huckleberry Finn"..