The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Frontispiece of 1st edition
Author	Mark Twain
Illustrator	True Williams
Cover artist	created by Mark Twain
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Bildungsroman, Picaresque, Satire, Folk, Children's Novel
Publisher	American Publishing Company
Publication date	1876
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	275pp
ISBN	NA
Followed by	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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About the Book

Tom Sawyer, a mischievous redheaded orphan taken in by his Aunt Polly, goes through a series of adventures involving his friends, Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn. Tom is an escape master, and a professional trickster. He escapes punishment many times by his tricks. Though he is often foolish and unpredictable, he also is somewhat smart and has a good sense of humor. When not trying to win his sweetheart, Becky Thatcher, Tom is either getting into mischief or going on an adventure. Many times, Tom suddenly changes from his grinning self into a fearsome pirate or Indian. His laugh changes into a bloodcurdling yell or a barking captain's voice. Tom Sawyer's main doings are racing bugs, impressing girls with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. The best-known passage in the book describes how Sawyer persuades his friends to white-wash, or paint, a long fence for him. Tom Sawyer (born 1833?) is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). ... Orphans, by Thomas Kennington An orphan (from the Greek ορφανός) is a person (typically a child), who has lost both parents, often through death. ... Joesph Joe Harper is Tom Sawyers best friend in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and joins Tom on some of his adventures. ... Mark Twains series of books featuring the fictional character Tom Sawyer include: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896) Tom Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse... Rebecca Becky Thatcher is a character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ... Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. ... Look up pirate and piracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the river in Canada, see Mississippi River (Ontario). ...

Literary significance & criticism

The sales of Tom Sawyer were lukewarm at first. It initially sold less than a third as many copies as Twain's Innocents Abroad. By the time of Mark Twain's death, however, Tom Sawyer was both an American classic and a bestseller. Innocents Abroad cover Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims Progress was published by American author Mark Twain in 1869. ... A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and booktrade figures and published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains. ...

Tom Sawyer also appears in three other Mark Twain books:

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
2. Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
3. Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)

Of these, Huckleberry Finn, in which Tom Sawyer is only a minor character, is considered to have by far the most literary merit. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ...

Film adaptations

The story of Tom Sawyer has been filmed or animated multiple times during the past century. Some of the film adaptations of Twain's novel include:

• A 1907 silent version released by the Paramount studio
• A 1917 silent version directed by William Desmond Taylor, starring Jack Pickford as Tom
• A 1930 version directed by John Cromwell, starring Jackie Coogan as Tom
• In 1938 "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was filmed in Technicolor by the Selznick Studio. It starred Tommy Kelly as Tom and was directed by Norman Taurog. Most notable was the cave sequence designed by William Cameron Menzies.
• A 1947 Soviet Union version, directed by Lazar Frenkel and Gleb Zatvornitsky
• A 1973 musical version with songs by Richard and Robert Sherman, starring Johnny Whitaker as Tom and a young Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher. There was also a TV movie version released that same year which starred Buddy Ebsen as Muff Potter.
• Tom Sawyer no Boken (1980), a Japanese anime TV series by Nippon Animation, part of the World Masterpiece Theater; aired in the United States on HBO
• A 1984 Canadian claymation version produced by Hal Roach studios
• Tom and Huck (1995), starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Tom and Brad Renfro as Huck Finn
• A 2000 animated adaptation with an all-star voice cast, including country singers Rhett Akins (as Tom), Mark Wills (as Huck Finn), Lee Ann Womack, Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr. as well as Betty White as Aunt Polly

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Trivia

In dictations for his autobiography, Twain claimed Tom Sawyer "must have been" the first book whose manuscript was typed on a typewriter. However, typewriter historian Darryl Rehr has concluded that Twain's first typed manuscript was Life on the Mississippi.^[1] Life on the Mississippi cover Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. ...

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References

1. ^ Mark Twain and the Typewriter

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