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The classic story of a boy who makes his own rules and the small Missouri town where he and his friends experience the adventures of a lifetime. Filled with schoolyard pranks, buried treasures, spooky caves, secret gangs, and grave robbers, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is entertainment of the highest order. The clever schemes of its eponymous hero--from tricking his friends into completing his chores to sneaking into his own funeral--are the stuff...
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Tom Sawyer, an adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer.
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Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious...
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Macmillan Heinemann ELT
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©2005
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English
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"1844 - the Mississippi River, North America. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly in St Petersburg, Missouri. Tom and his friend, Huckleberry Finn, are always in trouble. One night, Tom and Huckleberry see a fight between Injun Joe, the Doctor and Muff Potter."--Back cover
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Atlantic Editions
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[2017]
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Français
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Les aventures et les farces d'un garçon espiègle qui grandit dans une ville du Mississippi au début du XIXe siècle.
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.
13) Huckleberry Finn
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2014]
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English
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Presents Mark Twain's classic novel about the adventures and misadventures of a young boy who attempts to help Jim, a runaway slave, find freedom in the North.
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