The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer Adventures
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was known as a great American short story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of Mark Twain&39;s best short stories including Both the well known and the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism, the qualities for which he is best known. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for social justice and equality.
Beginning the collection is Twain&39;s comic version of an old folk tale, Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, first published in 1865 in the New York Saturday Press. It became the title story of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, published in 1867, which was the work that established him as a leading American humorist.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) is a novel published by American novelist Mark Twain in 1876. The story of the
novel takes place in an ordinary town on the Mississippi River in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. The protagonist Tom Sawyer is innocent and lively, daring to explore, pursuing freedom, unbearable restriction of personality, boring life, and dreaming of doing a heroic career. The era of
's novels was written in the small town of St. Petersburg before the Civil War, but the town can be said to be a microcosm of American society at that time. Through the protagonist’s adventures, the novel satirizes and criticizes the hypocritical and vulgar social customs, hypocritical religious rituals and stereotyped school education in the United States, and describes the free and lively minds of children and teenagers in a cheerful style.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" has been widely sought after since its publication. After the book’s great success, Mark Twain wrote "Life on the Mississippi" (1883) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), which were praised as "Mississippi Three "The Trilogy" restores the truest American society in the mid to late 19th century.
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Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves , and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.
