The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 

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About the Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in a small Missouri town in 1835. After piloting river steamers along the Mississippi for four years, he began writing humorous short stories for newspapers.

was Twain’s first full-length novel. Many of the adventures of Tom and Huck Finn actually happened to Twain in his boyhood.

Even though Twain wrote this book mainly to entertain boys and girls, he hoped that adults would read and enjoy it, and recall their own childhood.

Mark Twain died in 1910. But he left the world a true picture of American life and the American spirit in his novels, short stories, and other writings.

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Sid Tells About Tom’s Mischief.