The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. See List of characters in the Tom Sawyer series. The sales of Tom Sawyer were lukewarm at first. It initially sold less than a third as many copies as Twain's Innocents Abroad. By the time of Mark Twain's death, however, Tom Sawyer was both an American classic and a bestseller. It is arguably the work for which Twain is best known today. Tom Sawyer also appears in three other Mark Twain books: Of these, Huckleberry Finn, in which Tom Sawyer is only a minor character, is considered to have by far the most literary merit. The first publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was by Chatto and Windus in England and came six months prior to the U.S. publication. Initial publication in England was often used by Twain, since otherwise it was impossible to obtain a copyright in the British... full article at wikipedia