Books with title Tom Sawyer

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens or simply, Mark Twain is a nineteen century writer, famous for bringing to light characters like Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn. Who does not remember the clever schoolboy who managed to trick a whole bunch of his friends into fence painting or shoved off some bitter medicine unto the throat of his poor cat? Who was not mesmerized by his thirst for common day adventure and his inspired interactions with his orphaned friend, Huckleberry Finn? If you want to recall those happy times and have a good laugh, then reading Tom Sawyer Abroad is a must. A parody of Jule Verne's adventure story, written in the same light and humorous style as Twain's previous work, this book impresses through the ease with which it captures you into the story, which is told from Huckleberry Finn's point of view, using first person narrative. The reader will enjoy the adventures that Tom and his friends Huck and black Jim go through, thanks to a genius yet crazy professor, owner of a pretty sturdy and perhaps a little futuristic hot air balloon. As a result of being in the same air balloon as this professor, who disappears at one point from the story, the three characters will experience firsthand what the world looks like from far up in the sky, as they travel by balloon from Illinois, US, to Africa and Egypt. While you will laugh at their bickering related to common day subjects or their take on life, at their first encounter with the lions or at their reaction to the Pyramids and the Sphinx, you will also be impressed by the subtle way in which the story introduces some sensitive matters like slavery and the discrimination against colored people as well as the political innuendos rising at one point or another in the character's lines.

The irrepressible Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, always looking for trouble, find it again in Tom Sawyer Abroad, Twain's once-celebrated but now little-known sequel to his classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom and Huck have both ranged the length of the Mississippi, but, as Huck declares, ''Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?....No, he wasn't. It only just pisoned him for more.'' So the two boys head off to see the unveiling of a futuristic airship--only to be kidnapped by its mad inventor! But when the inventor goes overboard in a storm, it's up to Tom and Huck to take control of the airship as it heads out over the seething ocean toward the unknown. Yonder they will encounter robbers, lions, Bedouins, and the perils of the Sahara in their very own Arabian adventure, during which they get to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx.

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of Tom Sawyer Abroad includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword from the Publisher.Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn have both ranged the length of the Mississippi-but those adventures were nothing compared to this!Tom and Huck go to see the unveiling of an experimental airship...only to be kidnapped by the ship's murderous inventor, who plans to fly around the world and then crash in flames-taking Tom and Huck with him! When the madman falls overboard in an Atlantic storm, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are trapped on an out-of-control airship, headed through the dangers of the ocean, toward the perils of the endless Sahara!

Classic CD Books speaks new life into Mark Twain's greatest detective story. In this once-celebrated sequel of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Tom and Huck get rescued from spring fever by a serendipitous trip to visit Tom's Uncle Silas. But little did the family know, Tom would be the one to rescue Uncle Silas -- and from much more.

DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky 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 effect 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, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering 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 o' good-hearted and silly, and bald-headed, on account of his age, and about the talkiest old cretur I ever see. For as much as thirty years he'd been the only man in the village that had a reputation—I mean a reputation 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 admiring and gawking over HIS travels, and it just give the poor old man the high strikes. 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 such 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 were 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 beat out the other.

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. 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.