by Mark Twain · El País · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246102
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«Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by El País in paperback (269 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a town on the banks of the Mississippi in the 19th century, it recounts the pranks of Tom Sawyer, an ingenious and rebellious boy who lives with his Aunt Polly. With his friend Huckleberry Finn, Tom plays at being a pirate or bandit, hunts for treasure, and ventures into a cave, until a violent event forces him to choose between keeping quiet or acting.
The original title is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). The work opens the 'Adventures of Tom and Huck' series. The translation is by Doris Rolfe.
Recommended for young readers and for those seeking a classic of 19th-century North American adventure literature.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
