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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

A Novel
By Mark Twain
Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
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One of the best-known classics of American literature, Mark Twain's indelible novel of boyhood, friendship, and adventure. Few works of fiction are more known and beloved for keenly documenting the triumphs, trials, exultations, and despairs of boyhood than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Set in 1840s... Read More
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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One of the best-known classics of American literature, Mark Twain's indelible novel of boyhood, friendship, and adventure.

Few works of fiction are more known and beloved for keenly documenting the triumphs, trials, exultations, and despairs of boyhood than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Set in 1840s Missouri, Mark Twain's picaresque novel follows a rambunctious, rebellious rascal whose exploits are the delight of the town boys and the bane of the adults trying to “civilise” them at home, in school, and at church.

Tom and his friends, including Huck Finn (the son of the town drunk and star of Twain’s subsequent masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), skip school and run away, play pirates and robbers, go hunting in caves, fake their own deaths, poke around haunted houses, frolic along the river banks, and triumphantly interrupt their own funeral sermons. They believe in magic and superstitions, witness body snatchers and murder, and search for—and find—buried treasure.

Twain's mastery of satire and droll humour, his unparalleled narrative skill in capturing the incomparable fierce joys of childhood, and his piercing attentiveness to the ever-present tension between the freedom of adolescence and the confining expectations of social propriety have made this timeless tale of Americana a revered classic for generations that continues to enthrall readers today.

This deluxe edition features French flaps, a deckle edge, and a stunning cover designed using authentic printers and metal/wood type manufactured in the 1840s.

Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780063439887

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 August 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 231g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels the ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and the ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain 'the father of American literature'.

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