The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics) [Mass Market Paperback]

Mark Twain (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0451528646 | ISBN-13: 978-0451528643 | Publication Date: December 3, 2002

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

 

Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors.

 

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 

He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn—liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their exciting flight down the Mississippi aboard a raft, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. As Ernest Hemingway said of this glorious novel: “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”

 

With a New Introduction

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About the Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental—and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Signet Classics (December 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451528646
• ISBN-13: 978-0451528643
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #9 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > 19th Century
  • #21 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Classics

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Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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159 of 169 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete: Missing Passages, January 3, 2011

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akwhite - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Kindle Edition)

This edition is missing some passages from the original works. For example, there are about three pages missing (as measured from a paperback copy) from Chapter 21 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is an abridged version of these books., October 15, 2009

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E. Whalen (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read both books in high school and wanted to re-read them. I thought this would be a good deal, and convenient because both books were bound in one. However, after I received my copy, I realized that this book is too short to contain the full original text of both novels. I emailed the publisher and was told this is an abridged version of the books.

If you are looking for an unabridged version, this is not for you. I checked carefully, and did not find any indication on the book that this is an abridged version of the original novels (which is why I emailed the publisher to ask).

To be clear, I think both books are good, and are certainly worth reading at least once. I prefer unabridged versions of books, especially of American classics. As such, I returned this book to Amazon and will be purchasing the unabridged versions of these books.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good but missing pages, July 12, 2011

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This review is from: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Kindle Edition)

It has been years since I read these two books. There was a lot that I had forgotten about them. Was really disappointed that I would be reading along and I would turn a page and would have lost 10-15 pages. Would really like to see this fixed and notified so I can delete this issue and get corrected copy....