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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Tom turns daily life beside the Mississippi into an adventure. Mischief with his friends leads him into danger he cannot simply laugh off.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Adventure / children's fiction
- Length
- 35 chapters · About 6 hours
- First published
- 1876
- Availability
- Free
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For readers who like childhood adventures and small-town life. Expect dialect and dated racial language.
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THE OPENING PAGES
Try the first few lines.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the
room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or
never looked _through_ them for so small a thing as a boy; they were
her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for “style,” not
service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.
She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but
still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
“Well, I lay if I get hold of you I’ll—”
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching
under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the
punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
“I never did see the beat of that boy!”
She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the
tomato vines and “jimpson” weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So
she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:
“Y-o-u-u TOM!”
There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize
a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
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