The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain

Summary

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete" by Mark Twain is a novel published in 1876 about a mischievous boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the 1830s-1840s. Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn navigate childhood adventures that take increasingly dangerous turns when they witness a murder in a graveyard. Sworn to secrecy and living in fear, the boys must decide whether to speak the truth as an innocent man faces trial, while a vengeful killer remains free. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

• Adventure stories
• Bildungsromans
• Boys — Fiction
• Child witnesses — Fiction
• Humorous stories
• Male friendship — Fiction
• Mississippi River Valley — Fiction
• Missouri — Fiction
• Runaway children — Fiction
• Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) — Fiction

Bookshelves

• Banned Books List from the American Library Association
• Banned Books from Anne Haight's list
• Adventure
• American Literature
• Classics of Literature
• Novels