Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn - Complete Edition
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective
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[email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-272-3314-4
Table of Contents
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
TOM SAWYER ABROAD
TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual — he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story — that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they