The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Original en 69747 words First published 1876 United States

Mark Twain's 1876 classic of boyhood on the Mississippi. Tom Sawyer — fence-whitewasher, pirate, Sunday-school fraud, and hero of the village — traps his way through a Missouri summer: love for Becky Thatcher, an adventure in a graveyard that witnesses a murder, treasure in a haunted house, and Injun Joe in the caves. Written out of Twain's own childhood, it is nostalgic without being soft — the book that fixed the American boy in the world's imagination.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain in the United States); the Project Gutenberg trademark and license text have been removed on import. Public-domain status determined by the author's death year + 50 years rule.

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