The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - 9780007420117

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The Adventures of Tom SawyerAuthor(s): Mark Twain\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: William Collins\nISBN-13: 9780007420117, 978-0007420117\nSynopsis\nHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\n\nNow he found out a new thing namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.\n\nAn idyllic snapshot of a boys childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twains The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the authors work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.\n\nMischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to tell a soul about what they have seen and so begins their.