The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1876
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Early to mid-nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Children’s literature, Adventure
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Nature, Nineteenth century, Betrayal, Friendship, Midwest, Native Americans or American Indians, Islands, Death or dying, Small-town life, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Boys, Runaway children, Cemeteries, Caves
- Locales: Missouri, Mississippi River
Places Discussed
St. Petersburg. Fictional Missouri village on the west bank of the Mississippi River in and around which the entire novel is set. The village is modeled on the real, and somewhat larger, Hannibal, Missouri, in which Twain himself lived as a boy. Like Hannibal, it has a wooded promontory on its north side and a huge limestone cave to its south. Tom Sawyer lives near its center in a two-story house that closely resembles Twain’s own home of the 1840’s. However, the fictional St. Petersburg also has elements of the tiny inland village of Florida, Missouri,...
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