The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Huckleberry Finn

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Hardcover, 437 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 1987 by Hamlyn.

ISBN:
978-0-600-55310-6
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OCLC Number:
17507796

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4 stars (1 review)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are two of the best-known and best- loved books in children's literature.

The characters and exploits of two boys living in a small town on the banks of the great Mississippi River are largely based on the author's own life and experiences and on that of his friends.

Tom. Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were the first heroes of children's literature not to display the sometimes priggish moral values of earlier Victorian creations. Mark Twain celebrates instead their resourcefulness, physical courage and above all their humour. Readers today, both young and old, will be held as spellbound by their hair-raising escapades as they were a century ago. --front flap

43 editions

reviewed Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Rapscallion romps

4 stars

Inspired to pick this up as a primer before reading Percival Everett's James.

Twain's writing breathlessly draws you along the intertwined story arcs for Tom and Huck with a flair for pace and effortlessly delivered cheek. The setting follows life along the Mississipi in the mid 19th century and is inescapably awash with reference and attitudes to slavery. These would not be the same stories without this ever present factor, and the reader may struggle to balance the pure joy of the heroes' exploits with how they themselves interpret the world as protagonists very much of their time.