by Mark Twain, D. K. Swan, Chris Molan · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582035881
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«The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» is the abridged novel by Mark Twain, D. K. Swan and Chris Molan, published by Pearson in paperback (74 pages, in English).
Mark Twain's classic recounts the escapades of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in St. Petersburg (Missouri), on the banks of the Mississippi. Amid pranks and games, Tom shares adventures with Huckleberry Finn and reflects the life and contradictions of nineteenth-century American society.
It is Stage 3 of Longman Classics, with about 1,300 vocabulary words; it includes an introduction, glossary, and comprehension and discussion exercises.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language and for young readers aged 9 to 12 who want to approach this classic in an adapted version.
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.
