The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
“Tom!” Aunt Polly hunts once more for her mischievous nephew.
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Opening lines
“Tom!”
No answer.
“TOM!”
No answer.
“What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!”
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for “style,” not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
“Well, I lay if I get hold of you I’ll—”
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the…
About the book
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel by Mark Twain, published in 1876, about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the 1830s–40s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, based on Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Though initially a commercial failure, it became the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime and is widely regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
About the author
Mark Twain (1835–1910), born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. His works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Pudd'nhead Wilson.
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