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Twain initially believed that he created The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for adults. The writer’s friends, who heard the first chapters, immediately began to convince him that the book was for children. Now such conversations generally seem pointless, because Twain’s story is equally liked by both adults and young readers.
Not counting The Gilded Age, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was Mark Twain's first novel. By the time MT died, it had become an American classic, and it remains perhaps the best-loved of all his books among general readers. When it first came out in 1876, however, it was comparatively a failure.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is, to some extent, a story about growing up – a kind of rites of passage story. At the beginning of the novel Tom is a naughty child who feels constrained by such things as school and Sunday school, meal times, and good table manners, and he longs for Huck Finn’s freedom and lazy lifestyle.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is set in the 1840s, mainly in St. Petersburg, Missouri, a small fictional village where everyone knows everyone and the people are unsophisticated. When Judge ...
Mr. Dobbins seems a slightly sad character: his ambition to be a medical doctor has been thwarted and he has become a heavy drinker and the butt of schoolboy pranks. A list of all the characters in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer characters include: Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, Injun Joe.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, novel by Mark Twain. Productions. 2001 Broadway. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a musical comedy based on the 1876 novel by Mark Twain conceived and written by Ken Ludwig, with music and lyrics by Don Schlitz . The musical is the story of a fourteen-year-old boy growing up in the heartland of America.
Overview. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain written for both youth and adult readers. It is a story about Tom Sawyer, a boy from the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Tom lives a life of constant adventure, drama, self-aggrandizement, and self-inflicted woes as he comes of age.
