Author:
Mark Twain
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Sign up todayThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Abridged
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Learn moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
Originally published in 1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the classic tale of a carefree and courageous boyโs coming-of-age in a rural Mississippi River town. Tom and his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, are two of literatureโs most enduring and treasured creations.
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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce.
Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Paul Newman
ISBN:
9780743568166
Length:
2 hours 18 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:
June 1, 2000
Edition:
Abridged