Tom Sawyer

Summary

Mark Twain’s enduringly popular tale of frontier life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , was filled with elements of the author’s own young life. It is popular with children but it offers the mature reader more than picaresque sketches in its satire and literary innovation. By the time of its publication he was already a noted humorist with a number of books to his name including The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavera County and other Sketches (1867) and The Innocents Abroad (1869). However, it was the tale of Tom Sawyerand his adventures with his unruly companion Huckleberry Finn, published in 1876, that brought him long lasting fame. Tom is an energetic and audacious boy who lives with his Aunt Polly in the quiet environs of St Petersburg, Missouri. With Huck Finn, Tom finds himself a part in many escapades involving a murder, the framing of a drunken man called Muff Potter, the nefarious Injun Joe, and an unintentional three-day sojourn in a cave with his sweetheart Becky Thatcher. These exploits are continued in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .

Table of contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30
• Chapter 31
• Chapter 32
• Chapter 33
• Chapter 34
• Chapter 35

More by Mark Twain

• The Invalid's Story
• Huckleberry Finn
• Barrelled Detective Story
• Journalism in Tennessee
• First Writing-Machines

Other Fiction classics

• Lady Chatterley's Lover — D.H. Lawrence
• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Billy Budd — Herman Melville
• Ulysses — James Joyce
• Dubliners — James Joyce
• Little Women — Louisa M. Alcott