by Mark Twain · Piemme · tapa dura · ISBN 9788838439056
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Le avventure di Tom Sawyer» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Piemme in hardcover (284 pages, in Italian).
The novel is set in the 1840s in a small community on the Mississippi and follows Tom Sawyer, a boy who turns everyday life into adventure. Mischief, humor and social criticism combine in a portrait of childhood where loyalty and courage are put to the test.
First installment of the «Adventures of Tom and Huck» series. The edition is from 1997, with illustrations by Claude Lapointe; it belongs to the «I classici del Battello a vapore» collection.
Recommended for readers aged 11 and up, especially for those approaching the classics of youth literature for the first time.
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.
