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The adventures of Tom Sawyer

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Books, c1991.
Series:	Courage Classics
Subjects:	Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Boys > Missouri > Fiction. Mississippi River > Fiction. Missouri > Fiction. Adventure stories > Missouri. Humorous fiction > Missouri.
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Summary:	The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.
Item Description:	"Courage classics"--Jacket.
Physical Description:	161 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	1561380237
Author Notes:	Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910. (Bowker Author Biography)