by Mark Twain · Magnard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782210762664
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«Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Magnard in paperback (224 pages, in French).
The adventures of orphan Tom Sawyer in 1840s Missouri, a clever, mischievous boy with a great imagination. With his friends Joe and Huck, he experiences episodes that lead him to a deserted island, a deep cave, and a cemetery; in his world appear Becky, his Aunt Polly, and the feared Joe.
School edition from the Classiques et Contemporains collection, with selected excerpts and commentary by Cécile Pellissier. First installment of the Adventures of Tom and Huck series.
It is intended for secondary school students in France (6e and 5e programmes) and also works as youth reading of a classic.
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.
