Tom is an escape master, and a professional trickster. The best known passage in the book describes how Sawyer persuades his friends to whitewash, or paint, a long fence for him. -- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The book that introduced the world to the iconic American characters of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, this 1876 novel by Mark Twain follows the mischievous exploits of the two young boys, who find themselves in situations both humorous ...
Tom Sawyer chronicles the escapades of a mischievous but well-meaning young lad who — in Twain's words — "was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though— and hated him." As Tom bounds along from one ...
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Tom Sawyer represented Twain's first solo venture as a novelist, inasmuch as he had been previously known primarily for his droll platform performances and his collections of comic sketches and travel narratives—though three years earlier ...
