The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five. Klappentext Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in the history of literature, Tom Sawyer explodes onto the page in a whirl of bad behaviour and incredible adventures. Whether he is heaving clods of earth at his brother, faking a gangrenous toe, or trying to convince the world that he is dead, Tom's infectious energy and good humor shine through. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's joyful and nostalgic recollection of tall tales from his own boyhood by the Mississippi some 'thirty or forty years ago', an instant success on first publication in 1876 and a delight to children of all ages ever since. With an afterword by Peter Harness. Mark Twain's funny and heartwarming story of a Mississippi childhood Zusammenfassung Mark Twain's funny and heartwarming story of a Mississippi childhood...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mark Twain, Twain Mark
• Con la collaborazione di: Peter Harness (Introduzione), Harness Peter (Introduzione)
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 8 a 11 anni
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781509828005
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-2800-5
• Pagine: 264
• Dimensioni: 103 mm x 160 mm x 16 mm
• Serie: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Adventure, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Satire, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Satirical fiction and parodies, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Southeastern & South Atlantic States, US South: South Atlantic States, Adventure / action fiction