Product Overview
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Twains themes and Toms journey into adolescence. Originally published in 1876, Mark Twains Adventures of Tom Sawyer is based upon the authors own childhood experiences living in Hannibal, Missouri. For over a century, readers have delighted in the imaginative adventures and superstitious practices of the young characters. Episodes like the whitewashing of the fence and Tom and Beckys adventure in the cave have become ingrained in popular culture, making the novel one of the most famous works of American literature.
