by Mark Twain · Puffin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140350036
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«The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Puffin Classics in paperback (224 pages, in English).
The story follows Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy living on the banks of the Mississippi amid games, lessons and punishments. When he convinces his friends to paint a fence, the day becomes pure ingenuity, and his thirst for adventure leads him to search for a hidden treasure that will test his courage.
First instalment of the 'Adventures of Tom and Huck' series; the work was originally published in 1876 and received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1967.
For readers aged 9 and up and adults who want to rediscover a classic of nineteenth-century American literature.
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.
