The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 1835–1910 · USA
Why it matters
A boy's idyll of mischief, caves, and buried treasure along the Mississippi. Twain's sunnier prelude to Huckleberry Finn defined the American boyhood myth: nostalgia with a satirist's wink.
At a glance
bildungsroman
Difficulty 3/10fast pace274 pagesStraightforward episodic narration aimed at young readers.
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