The Writings of Mark Twain Volume XII: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Bibliographic Details

Author: Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)

Title: The Writings of Mark Twain (Volume XII): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Publisher: The American Publishing Company (1901)

Language: English

Format: Hardcover w/ Deckle Edge – 328 pages

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Item Weight: 1.50 pounds

Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.75" X 1.5" 

Book Condition: (Blue cloth with deckle edge or uncut edge in acceptable condition. Book is unmarked. No torn pages. A few corner creases. Splitting on the front and back inside hinges. A few stains. Light tanning to pages. Binding is loose. Hardcover has wear and some minor staining.) 

Synopsis:

Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. Set by the Mississippi River in the 1840's, it follows these boys as they get into predicament after predicament. Tom's classic whitewashing of the fence has become part of American legend, and the book paints a nostalgic picture of life in the middle of the nineteenth century. Tom runs away from home to an island in the river, chases Injun Joe and his treasure, and even gets trapped in a cave for days with Becky Thatcher. The book is one of Twain's most beloved stories.

About the Author:

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce.

Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen–Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees–he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."