by Mark Twain · Livre de Poche Jeunesse (Le) · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782012202344
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«Les aventures de Tom Sawyer» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Livre de Poche Jeunesse in paperback (416 pages, in French).
Set on the Mississippi, the story follows Tom Sawyer, an ingenious boy who hates obligations and prefers escapades with Huck Finn: pranks, pirate games on an island, and a nocturnal visit to the cemetery that reveals a disturbing secret, while his Aunt Polly tries to keep him in line.
First part of the «Adventures of Tom and Huck» series. Work published in 1876; this French edition is illustrated and includes the complete text, translated by P.F. Caillé and Y. Dubois-Mauvais.
Recommended for readers aged 9 to 12, according to the indicated reading age, and for anyone wanting to start with classics in French.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
