The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri.
om Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treas…
from the back cover: Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who …
Kisah petualangan remaja karangan Mark Twain dengan latar belakang alam bebas di tepi Sungai Mississippi ini merupakan salah satu karya klasik Amerika. Tom yang nakal tinggal di rumah Bibi Polly yang dermawan. Setelah bertengkar dengan sahabatnya, Becky Thatcher, Tom pergi bertualang bersama Huck Finn, temannya. Secara kebetulan keduanya menyaksikan penjahat menusuk seorang dokter hingga mening…