The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Hartford

American Publishing Company

1876

The first edition of Twain’s classic novel about the mischievous, rough-and-tumble Tom Sawyer’s amusing adventures along the Mississippi River. He hoped the book would have broad appeal: “Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.”