The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are two of the best-known and best- loved books in children's literature. The characters and exploits of two boys living in a small town on the banks of the great Mississippi River are largely based on the author's own life and experiences and on that of his friends. Tom. Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were the first heroes of children's literature not to display the sometimes priggish moral values of earlier Victorian creations. Mark Twain celebrates instead their resourcefulness, physical courage and above all their humour. Readers today, both young and old, will be held as spellbound by their hair-raising escapades as they were a century ago. --front flap