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1) The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author

Twain, Mark

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Testing for Tom Sawyer bug

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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...

2) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade)

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Enriched classics
Mark Twain library
Works volume 13

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One of the most popular books of all-time, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been both venerated and vilified since it was first published in 1885. The story of a young abused boy on the run and his friendship with a runaway slave is about loyalty, compassion, and doing what is right.

3) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

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Banned & Challenged Books

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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...

4) The gilded age

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

The Oxford Mark Twain
First novel library volume FN8

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"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era of political greed and corruption that followed the American Civil War. This period is often referred to as "The Gilded Age" because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the era is exemplified through two fictional narratives; one of the Hawkins family, a poor family from Tennessee who try to get the government...

5) No. 44, the mysterious stranger: being an ancient tale found in a jug and freely translated from the jug

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Mark Twain library

Pub. Date

[1982]

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"Boyhood memeories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the printshops of Hannibal are here transformed into a story set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects, in which a penniless printer's apprentice - a youthful mysterious stranger with the curious name 44 - gradually reveals his supernatural powers and the hidden possibilities of the human mind." From the book jacket....

6) Tom Sawyer abroad ; Tom Sawyer detective

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Mark Twain library

Pub. Date

[1983] c1980.

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Tom Sawyer and his friends take a trip by balloon to Egypt; Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn must solve a murder mystery.

7) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer's comrade) : scene, the Mississippi Valley, time, forty to fifty years ago

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Mark Twain library

Pub. Date

2010

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A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.