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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Written by Mark Twain and Nick Bullard

    Narrated by Multiple Narrators

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    Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse ...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Release dateNov 8, 2007
    ISBN9780194215480
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this through free downloads on ITunes U on my drives back from the Museum. I'd heard of it before and maybe even saw a cartoon of bits before but I wasn't familiar with the text. Twain's used of the sophisticated narration is in contrast to the wonderful dialogue of the kids. Fascinating and disturbing to hear about how much freedom the kids had back then. It reminded me a little of what my Dad said of his boyhood. It pokes fun at religion and some social habits, though others seem galling to a modern ear.
    • 5/5
      Everyone should read this book!
    • 3/5
      I read this book in my 6th grade. The story was gripping but not my favorite.
    • 2/5
      Cruciaal is de ontmoeting met Huckleberry Finn. Vinnige dialogen; Mooie impressie van jongensachtige gevoelens en leefwereld, genre Witte van Zichem (Claes is duidelijk maar een doordrukje van Twain). Toch maar matig boek.
    • 3/5
      Lie at your peril - your guilt can trap you in a cave. A nightmare I've never been able to find my way out of.
    • 3/5
      Totally fun, story of a mischevious, very likeable boy and his adventures with his friends.
    • 5/5
      Why had I never read this classic before?... who knows! But i'm glad I have now read it and will move right into listening to the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
    • 5/5
      Like many young people, Tom would rather be having fun than going to school and church. This is always getting him into trouble, from which he finds unusual solutions. One of the great scenes in this book has Tom persuading his friends to help him whitewash a fence by making them think that nothing could be finer than doing his punishment for playing hooky from school. When I first read this story, it opened up my mind to the potential power of persuasion.Tom also is given up for dead and has the unusual experience of watching his own funeral and hearing what people really thought of him. That's something we all should be able to do. By imagining what people will say at our funeral, we can help establish the purpose of our own lives. Mark Twain has given us a powerful tool for self-examination in this wonderful sequence.Tom and Huck Finn also witness a murder, and have to decide how to handle the fact that they were not supposed to be there and their fear of retribution from the murderer, Injun Joe.
    • 5/5
      Seriously a great read! I remember hating this as a kid - being forced to read it - with 25+ years of experiences under my belt since I last picked up this book, it's just an amazing read. As adults, we really just need to say fuck it, let's see what kind of trouble I can get myself into more often ...
    • 3/5
      A very adult children's book.
    • 4/5
      One-sentence summary: Tom Sawyer is the original mischievous troublemaker who spends his summer getting into adventures with his best friend Huck Finn in this classic story of a childhood in a small American town.My rating: between 3 and 4 starsWhen read: I read this as a child.Why read: We had two big green volumes of the collected Mark Twain in our home library. I read a bit of it, not all, and my primary memories are of this novel and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.Impressions: All of the famous scenes still stand out in my memory: whitewashing the fence; getting lost in the caves; Tom and Huck watching their own funerals. Tom Sawyer is a gentler book than Huck Finn, more humor and less social criticism, so it's a good introduction to Twain and more appropriate for younger readers.Current status: I have a copy of the Penguin Classics edition of this book in my library. I foresee rereading it with my son someday.
    • 5/5
      This is a classic in American literature. What more can be said.
    • 4/5
      This was my first Mark Twain read. My sister hates his books so I thought I should read one to see why. I can understand why she doesn't like his style of writing, but I rather liked it! I envy Tom's childhood, except the whole being stalked by a murderer bit. He had lots of fun and its cool that Tom's character is based on other boys Mr. Twain knew and his own childhood.
    • 5/5
      This book would've been given to one of my brothers at some stage and it's ended up in my possession. I'm sure no one ever read it the whole time its faded spine graced the family bookshelves. I think if I'd picked it up as a kid I would've found the dialect a bit difficult. It's only after watching plenty of TV that I have an inkling as to how those boys would've actually spoken. I must've read the first part at some stage, because the scene of Tom swindling the neighbourhood boys into white washing the fence is a resonant one.Anyhow, I'm glad I read the whole thing and can't believe it never got spoilered for me. Next I'll be cracking the spine on Huckleberry Finn.
    • 2/5
      Book title and author: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by Mark Twain). Reviewed 5/15/23. Why I picked this book up: I was selected for early review in LibraryThing for The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books by Gringory Lukin (Editor. I read one book out if order w so I went back and read this one next.Thoughts: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of Twain's works during his lifetime. Though overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is considered by many to be a masterpiece of American literature. It was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter. Tom Sawyer was deemed to be a bad role model for kids, which led to the book being excluded from the children's room in the Brooklyn, N.Y. Public Library (1876) and the Denver, Colo. Public Library (1876). More recently, it was removed from the seventh grade curriculum in the West Chester, Pa. schools (1994) after parents complained that it is too full of racially charged language.Entire countries ended up banning[…]”. (Unknown author of this snippet in this book. Pg 2096Why I finished this read: this book: I found this book interesting, crazy boring, lame at time, funny at times and sometimes difficult to continue but I finished it to complete this next book in this arranged compendium. This was like reading a little boys thoughts and seeing him wanting to be older than he is. Stars rating: it is a classic, not one of my favorites at all but I rated it at 2 of 5. I could have stopped reading it and could have skipped it and not been sad about that choice. I wouldn’t recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful story. I loved reading this one. Combines action, comedy and interesting comments.
    • 4/5
      I haven’t read this since I was a kid. Revisiting it as an adult, I have a different appreciation for the remarkable portrayal of American childhood in the mid-1800’s. For those complaining about the racism in the language, I would only say look beyond your own prejudices and recognize the talent on display and be thankful we have learned to look beyond the once accepted ideas about other races. This one will go on my list to periodically reread because it is classic Americana of a world long gone. Some of what was lost should have been kept.
    • 4/5
      Rereading classics is good however the story is ruined by the ugliness of racism hits you square in the face.
    • 5/5
      Having read Huckleberry Finn as a child I did not comprehend Mark Twain's genius. Reading Tom Sawyer as an adult really demonstrated why he deserves his places as one of America's greatest authors. A delight to read and a book I would recommend to nearly anyone. Normally I dislike reading books to which I know the ending but even with all the information I gleaned about Tom Sawyer from popular culture this book was a surprise and treat.
    • 4/5
      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel about a young boy growing up in the 1840s in the Mississippi River-side town of St. Petersburg, Missouri (inspired by Hannibal, Missouri where Mark Twain, the author, grew up). Tom is a smart and mischievous boy who knows how to get what he wants and gets out of trouble in very unique ways.

      I will admit, it took me 27 years to read this book. In some ways I'm glad I waited, if only because of the forward Twain put in the front of the book:

      "Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in."

      I did love the energy that only a child can have that was written in this. The way that Tom and Huck would argue about varies superstitions and reason to run away (to be pirates or like Robin Hood). Twain does a tremendous job at reminding me what it's like to be a kid again. The novel also gives a view of what it was like growing up in America at that time.

      It was a bit hard for me with the dialect and accents the way they were written, but it wasn't anything that softly reading aloud didn't help. That's just me being a weird silent reader.
    • 5/5
      Finished reading this again while the power was out on the island and I couldn't work.

      I think I've read this at least five times. There are some books that are simply woven so tightly into the warp and woof of the American experience that they will always rate five stars, and this is one of them.

    • 5/5
      One of the greatest books I have ever read! It made me long to be a child again, though I was nowhere near as imaginative as Tom or Huck.
    • 5/5
      Classic in every sense. Something new every time you read it.
    • 3/5
      This tells the story of a boy, Tom Sawyer, and his best friend, Huck Finn, and some of the adventures they get into. Some of those adventures include ghosts, haunted houses and treasure. I listened to an audio version of this one, narrated by William Dufris. The narrator was very good with amazing expressions, but my mind wandered, anyway. The one mostly couldn't hold my interest. Because of that, I missed a lot, so initially, it almost felt like these were short stories, rather than a novel. A lot of the same characters did return later, and I think storylines were picked up again later, but it was hard to connect everything because I just hadn't focused enough. However, the parts of the book that I did catch, I thought were cute. And, I have to give bonus points for the narrator, so an “o.k.” 3 stars it is.
    • 4/5
      Even though this book is well over a century old it still holds up! It's funny, witty, and remarkably insightful into the head of a mischievous young boy. The games, and clothes, and manners may have changed; but kids would still be easily able to relate to the games that Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn play. From pirates to adventurers, they know how to have fun with practically nothing but their imagination. And the trouble, lord these two boys know how to get in trouble and worry their families half to death. From running away, getting lost in caves, witnessing a murder and more, Tom Sawyer is the king of trouble. A must read classic!
    • 4/5
      I think I was supposed to read this in college. But never did. There were more important things to do like... (never mind).It was time to make up for the mistakes of my youth and take in a classic. That the audiobook was narrated by Nick Offerman was a bonus that moved Tom Sawyer to the top of my to-read list.
    • 3/5
      Borderline 3.5 stars, but not quite. Mainly because I didn't begin to truly enjoy the story until 2/3 of the way through.

      This is the first time I have ever read Mark Twain, and wanted to read this as a precursor to Huck Finn. I respect Mark Twain and his influence on many popular authors. For me, this particular novel does not hold water against some of the other American greats (Steinbeck, Edgar Allen Poe, Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc).

      A lot can be said in regards to the portrayals of African-Americans and Native Americans in the book (particularly the character "Injun Joe"), and Tom Sawyer is often censored or banned due to the language. Without a doubt, parts of the novel were certainly uncomfortable to this modern reader. I actually appreciated this, as it gives a glimpse of what life was like--from the perspective of Mississippi River dwelling, Southern, white children--in the pre-Civil War South. Racism and all. I enjoyed the satirical approach and exaggeration to some of the customs and superstitions of that community during that time period.

      Having said that, I concurrently read some of Twain's (Sam Clemens') other writings on American Indians, and it is atrocious. Product of the times or not, it left a bitter aftertaste while reading Sawyer. Hence the 3 stars.

      I do feel any use of this text in school should include a discussion on racism, fear, discrimination, freedom, etc.
    • 3/5
      I've returned to the river.A year ago I spent a weekend on the Missouri River attending a Writers Workshop. In typical Chris Blocker fashion, I thought it prudent to read something riverish. I selected Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi. Thus a new association was born and once I decided I was returning to the river, one of my first considerations was what Mark Twain book I'd read this year.I was hesitant to get into the Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn story-arc. I had a feeling I'd be underwhelmed or offended. I was leaning toward a different selection, but at the last minute, I decided to go with a classic. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer wasn't that bad—not as bad as I imagined it could be—but it certainly didn't impress me too much. Part of the issue is that Tom Sawyer feels slightly underdeveloped—ideas are used seemingly haphazardly and are recycled throughout the story. And part of the issue is that some of the novels better moments have become cliché. I recognize that Twain was likely the originator of some of these ideas—at least he was probably the prominent figure who introduced them into the American narrative. But I've seen enough Our Gang to know that children who play pirates will find treasure, children who fake death will convince everyone, and that little boys will always win a kiss from the girl of their dreams. It's not Twain's fault that his story has been resurrected repeatedly, but the familiarity minimized any sense of wonder and adventure I might have had had I come across this book 130 years ago.In a different time, this book may have had a much different impact on me. This is a strong story of adventure from a unique child-like perspective. Those who enjoy a little swashbuckling or hijinx will likely eat this story up like blackberry pie. (Why blackberry pie? I don't know. It just feels like something I'd expect from these characters.) With a different person, there would've been different results: I'm not one for adventure; I was never a child. It's a good, simple story, very much plot-driven, but I didn't see much else to it.Sadly, this book didn't hold to the river like I thought it would. There are a few mentions, a few explorations, but I have the notion that Huckleberry Finn is the more river-centric of the two. Will I explore the river someday with Huck? I don't know. I probably should, but I have the same hesitance I did with Tom Sawyer. Maybe I'll leave it up to the river. If it's able to pull me back another time, I'll consider it.
    • 4/5
      One point less for mocking Christianity
    • 5/5
      One of the books that I thought I had read but hadn't. It rushes along, adventure after adventure, capturing what it is is to be a child growing up.