"Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!"

Mark Twain's classic novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River has enchanted readers for over a century. This lively tale of boyhood shenanigans is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.

Twain based 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' largely on his personal memories of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. In his preface to the novel, he states that "[m]ost of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred" and that the character of Tom Sawyer has a basis in "a combination... of three boys whom I knew." Indeed, nearly every figure in the novel comes from the young Twain's village experience: Aunt Polly shares many characteristics with Twain's mother; Mary is based on Twain's sister Pamela; and Sid resembles Twain's younger brother, Henry.

'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' remains perhaps the most popular and widely read of all Twain's works.This edition has been fully enhanced for reading on the Kindle and includes original illustrations from the 1876 edition.

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