The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer captures childhood in all of its fantastical, imaginative, selfish, and (occasionally) noble glory. The relentlessly mischievous and endlessly ambitious Tom plays a starring role in adventures of his own devising, with the free-willed, philosophical misfit Huckleberry Finn playing the role of straight-man. Enmeshed boyhood fantasies of becoming career highwaymen and pirates, the children suddenly find themselves involved in a deadly serious adult drama. The blend of childlike wish-fulfillment with sophisticated wit has made this quintessentially American novel an enduring classic.