The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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- $0.99
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- $0.99
Publisher Description
Whether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly's cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in nineteenth century rural America. In this classic story, Mark Twain re-created a long-ago world of freshly whitewashed fences and Sunday school picnics into which sordid characters and violent incidents sometimes intruded. The tale powerfully appeals to both adult and young imaginations. Readers explore this memorable setting with a slyly humorous born storyteller as their guide.
Tom and Huck Finn conceal themselves in the town cemetery, where they witness a grave robbery and a murder. Later, the boys, feeling unappreciated, hide out on a forested island while the townspeople conduct a frantic search and finally mourn them as dead. The friends triumphantly return to town to attend their own funeral, in time for a dramatic trial for the graveyard murder. A three-day ordeal ensues when Tom and his sweetheart, Becky Thatcher, lose their way in the very cave that conceals the murderer.
Customer Reviews
skipped chapters
It was pretty good but u did skip multiple chapters
Wonderful book
As great a story as I remember. However, chapter 12 appears at the end of the book. Didn’t take away from the overall story though.
Abridged. - not listed as abridge
Hard to complain about a 99 cent audio book, but it is definitely an abridged version, though it does not say so.
It’s a fairly good job of abridgment, but there are a few jumps. The reader also reads well, but I was looking for an unabridged version and this isn’t it.