by Mark Twain · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582419230
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«The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» is Mark Twain's adventure novel adapted for Pearson's Penguin Readers, in paperback (28 pages, in English).
The story follows Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in a town on the Mississippi River in the 19th century. With his friend Huckleberry Finn, Tom witnesses a crime, goes in search of pirate treasure and gets lost in a cave, in adventures that reflect childhood life and imagination in America at the time.
Level 1 of Penguin Readers, adapted by Jacqueline Kehl, with a 300-word vocabulary for beginners.
For beginner-level English students and for young people who want to read a classic of literature with an adapted and accessible reading.
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.
