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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain











The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The limitations of his transgressions are nicely and artistically traced.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

His subjection in these respects does not so deeply affect his inherent tendencies but that he makes himself a beloved burden to the poor, tender-hearted old aunt who brings him up with his orphan brother and sister, and struggles vainly with his manifold sins, actual and imaginary. Clemens has so well described in his piloting reminiscences, but Tom belongs to the better sort of people in it, and has been bred to fear God and dread the Sunday-school according to the strictest rite of the faiths that have characterized all the respectability of the West. The town where Tom Sawyer was born and brought up is some such idle shabby Mississippi River town as Mr. Samuel Clemens has taken the boy of the Southwest for the hero of his new book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and has presented him with a fidelity to circumstance which loses no charm by being realistic in the highest degree, and which gives incomparably the best picture of life in that region as yet known to fiction.













The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain