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"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is the most famous young adult novel by American writer Mark Twain.
Tom Sawyer lives in St. Petersburg along the Mississippi River with his aunt and half-brother. He's not a well-behaved and quiet boy — he's definitely a little rascal. Mark Twain introduces readers to a child's world of adventures, full of fun and imagination. It's also an encounter with the first real problems — like first love, injustice, and friendship put to the test.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is essential reading both for every teenager — to show a picture of youth without smartphones and the Internet, and for adults — as a reminder of the magical time of childhood.
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About Mark Twain
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.
In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.
In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.