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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Genre: Universal Literature / Novels

Publishing Year: 1876

Language: English / Original Language: English

Original Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Description:

Mark Twain, who was considered by William Faulkner as "The Father of American Literature", reproduces in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer the model of an era of whitewashed fences and Sunday picnics in the parish, when the hustle and bustle of life overflowed the Mississippi and slavery became the central theme; These were the antebellum years, before the civil war broke out as a result of the historic controversy over slavery that would transform the history of the United States.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the story of a few months in the life of this boy who lives in a small town, St. Petersburg, in the southwest of the United States on the banks of the Mississippi.

Who is raised under the tutelage of his Aunt Polly, a very simple and plain woman who truly loves him, but who imposes a discipline on him that seems unreasonable and mortifying to him.

Tom is a perceptive and sharp child, he has a very different vision of the world than the adults he has to live with. Precisely because this dissent exists, he delights us with his witty and frank answers.

More crude and rebellious against this world of older adults is his unforgettable friend Huckleberry Finn, who is a boy who wanders the streets, who was abandoned by his parents and is examined by the prejudiced contemplation of the older ones; but, nevertheless, admired by the other children who see in him the very representation of freedom.

Together they will live comic and tragic adventures from which they will be able to emerge more gracefully than any adult could have done.