Books with title tom sawyer

* Illustrated(This title belongs to the STEAMPUNK ADVENTURES series. The STEAMPUNK ADVENTURES comprise an illustrated selection of classic Victorian speculative fiction, with each title being chosen for its quality, modern appeal and resonance with the steampunk movement of retro-futurism.)Mayhem incarnate leaves the Mississippi, in search of aeronautical adventure ...Tom Sawyer Abroad is Mark Twain’s send up of the Extraordinary Voyages series of Jules Verne, including such adventure classics as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Twain grew weary of having his excellent tales of down-home Americana compete with Verne’s outlandish pulp extravaganzas, and so he wrote Tom Sawyer Abroad as a satiric send-up of the entire genre. Watch as Tom, Huck and Jim pilot an airship, get chased by wild beasts, outwit savage tribesmen, ride giant fleas, gallivant throughout the world and seize outrageous fortune. Witty, hilarious and absurd, this is one of Twain’s lesser masterpieces ... and quite an obscure one! Enjoy.(Includes the full novella, 13 chapters, 25 illustrations, 34,000 words, 125 pages.)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty. Clemens enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." Other work of Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life On The Mississippi (1883), Roughing It (1872), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), The $30,000 Bequest and other short stories (1906), Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896), The War Prayer (1916), The Jumping Frog (1865)

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne.

Sawyer, a young male golden retriever (dog), grows restless, disobeys his mother, and then sneaks out early one morning to play "drop the tennis ball," from a bridge and into a creek, in rural Lexington, Virginia. He gallantly tries to keep up with his tennis balls and leaps in to chase them down stream. Much later, he gets lost and meets twelve different animals and creatures that teach him important lessons about how he should live a happy and satisfying life.

Exploring the wonders of the world from a hot-air balloon, Tom Sawyer and his friends, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, visit the Great Pyramids of Giza, face down lions and dodge robbers during an epic adventure that tests their mettle and the bonds of friendship.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

This rollicking adventure novel brings back Twain's best-loved characters--Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and the freed slave Jim--for a balloon trip around the world. Escaping civilization and Aunt Polly once again, this lively tale of far-off exploits is, as Twain wrote, "a story that will not only interest boys but any man who has ever been a boy, which immensely enlarges the audience." The book's comic tall tales and bold escapades are punctuated by a series of animated conversations among the three friends on topics that include the Crusades, religious toleration, racial discrimination, the limitations of maps, and the fine art of cursing. Tom and Jim rescue a child from brigands. Jim finds himself alone atop the Sphinx with an American flag. Adventure, burlesque, and serious commentary on society and its failings make Tom Sawyer Abroad an engaging and memorable book.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river the time we set the nigger Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effects it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, and some got drunk, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankerin' to be.For a while he was satisfied. Everybody made much of him, and he tilted up his nose and stepped around the town as though he owned it. Some called him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled him up fit to bust. You see, he laid over me and Jim considerable, because we only went down the river on a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went by the steamboat both ways. The boys envied me and Jim a good deal, but land! they just knuckled to the dirt before Tom.Well, I don't know; maybe he might have been satisfied if it hadn't been for old Nat Parsons, which was postmaster, and powerful long and slim, and kind of good-hearted, and silly, and bald-headed, on accounts of his age, and 'most about the talkiest old animal I ever see. For as much as thirty years he'd been the only man in the village that had a ruputation—I mean a ruputation for being a traveler—and of course he was mortal proud of it, and it was reckoned that in the course of that thirty years he had told about that journey over a million times, and enjoyed it every time; and now comes along a boy not quite fifteen and sets everybody gawking and admiring over his travels, and it just give the poor old thing the jim-jams. It made him sick to listen to Tom, and to hear the people say "My land!" "Did you ever?" "My goodness sakes alive!" and all them sorts of things; but he couldn't pull away from it, any more than a fly that's got its hind leg fast in the molasses. And always when Tom come to a rest, the poor old cretur would chip in on his same old travels and work them for all they were worth; but they was pretty faded and didn't go for much, and it was pitiful to see. And then Tom would take another innings, and then the old man again—and so on, and so on, for an hour and more, each trying to sweat out the other.This edition includes:- A complete biography of Mark Twain.- Table of contents with directs links to chapters.

In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. It is a sequel, set in the time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series.