Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Buy on AmazonThomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896). He is around 12 to 13 years old.
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"“Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn” were on the shortlist."
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"Then I discovered Mark Twain with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Tom Sawyer is still my all-time favorite literary hero."
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"Since I went to an American secular high school in Istanbul, Robert College, I've read "Tom Sawyer" as required reading, as well as "A Separate Peace" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," enjoying the democratic and egalitarian spirit of these books."
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