The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the first of Mark Twain’s novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A sombre undercurrent flows through the high humour and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality—base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.