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Interest age: from c 7 years, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)
The classic story of a boy growing up in a small town on the Mississippi. An abridged edition for young readers, with full-colour illustrations.
It's never too soon to share your favourite classics with the next generation...
This edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been adapted for younger readers and features:
- Simplified Text
- A child-friendly layout, designed for young readers
- Full-colour illustrations by award-winning artist Robert Ingpen.
This unforgettable story of a boy growing up in a small town on the Mississippi has become an all-time favourite, not just in America, but around the world. The original boyhood hero, the irrepressible Tom is an irresistible mix of exuberance, bad behaviour and bravado. Whether he is tricking his schoolmates into whitewashing a fence, running away to become a pirate with his friend Huck Finn, witnessing a murder, discovering treasure, or falling in love with the lovely Becky Thatcher, trouble, good humour and adventure are never far away.
A full-colour illustrated edition of one of the world's best-loved stories.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Mark Twain is the pseudonym of US author Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in Missouri, his early life revolved around the Mississippi River, which inspired his most famous works The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A canonical member of American literature, Mark Twain is noted for writing the sf novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Many of his novels and short stories contained elements of sf, and he himself has appeared in various modern sf novels such as Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld sequence. He died in Connecticut, aged 74.
For more information see http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/twain_mark
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