About the Book: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Novel (Harper Perennial Deluxe
Editions)
One of the best-known classics of American literature, Mark Twains 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 Twains picaresque novel follows a
rambunctious, rebellious rascal whose exploits are the delight of the town boys
and the bane of the adults trying to "civilize" them at home, in school, and at
church.
Tom and his friends, including Huck Finn