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This great classic for children, by Dalmatian Press, has been carefully condensed and adapted from the original version.  This edition maintains well-known phrases, author's style and important imagery and heart of tale.

Tom Sawyer is often described as an idyll.  An idyll is a remembrance of simple, peaceful, and innocent country life, often by a person who now lives in the city. Many parts of Tom Sawyer are certainly idyllic. However, Mark Twain does not remember only the pleasant parts of life in Hannibal. Evil is floating around the edges of Tom's small-town paradise. In addition, St. Petersburg is divided into strict social classes, from wealthy, educated people to penniless drunks, enslaved African Americans, and homeless people.

Twain contrasts the world of childhood with the world of adults. Often these two worlds are in conflict. More often than not, the young people in Tom Sawyer succeed in tricking the adults. In many ways, Tom and his friends seem to run the town.  There is a reason for this. One of Mark Twain's purposes in writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was to make fun of a type of book written for children at that time. These books portrayed admirable boys who always worked hard, behaved themselves perfectly, made touching sacrifices for others, attended church willingly, studied hard, saved their pennies, and never played hooky from school.  Twain, along with some other authors of the time, felt these stories were preachy, unrealistic, and completely lacking in the fun and humor of real children's lives.

• Cover intact; boards almost flawless
• Spine intact/tight
• Inside covers intact
• Pages crisp/clean with no writing/tears/stains – no missing pages
• Picture with listing is the actual book

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