Dec 25, 2009
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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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