Présentation de l'éditeur
The classic boy-hero of American literature. Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Missippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped a hanging. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe? 'In this book Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger to Pynchon' Guardian
Revue de presse
The hero is one of the most endearing in literature ―
Daily Telegraph
Twain shares a talent for well-observed caricature with Dickens...adventure, social commentary and good humour runs though his fiction ―
Sunday Express
In
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger's
The Catcher In The Rye to Pynchon's
Mason And Dixon, in mapping a fluvial, free-flowing adventure ―
Guardian
Twain had a gift for reliving the innermost feelings of growing up, the insecurity, fears and hopes that lie beneath the swagger that young boys maintain. He turned them into literature ―
Daily Mail
This classic story will stay with you through life, and always remind you of the things that you knew were important when you first read it -- Katy Guest ―
The Independent
Biographie de l'auteur
Mark Twain's real name was Sam Clemens, and he was born in 1835 in a small town on the Mississippi, one of seven children. He smoked cigars at the age of eight, and aged nine he stowed away on a steamboat. He left school at 11 and worked at a grocery store, a bookstore, a blacksmith's and a newspaper, where he was allowed to write his own stories (not all of them true). He then worked on a steamboat, where he got the name 'Mark Twain' (from the call given by the boat's pilot when their boat is in safe waters). Eventually he turned to journalism again, travelled round the world, and began writing books which became very popular.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are his most famous novels. He poured the money he earned from writing into new business ventures and crazy inventions, such as a clamp to stop babies throwing off their bed covers, a new boardgame, and a hand grenade full of extinguishing liquid to throw on a fire. With his shock of white hair and trademark white suit Mark Twain became the most famous American writer in the world. He died in 1910.
