The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Original, Unabridged (Large Print) By Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer of Mark Twain (1876), novel that recounts the childhood occurrences of Tom Sawyer, a boy who lives on the banks of the Mississippi River in the southern United States. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, which is inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where the author of the novel, Mark Twain lived. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. In a street fight, Tom dirty clothes and is forced to paint the fence the next day as punishment. Tom cleverly convinces his friends to be exchanged little treasures for the privilege of...

Esta novela corta es una muestra perfecta del relampagueante talento narrativo de Mark Twain. De ritmo vivaz, peripecia facil, personajes rapidamemente delineados y trama adornada por el habitual humor socarron de Twain, Tom Sawyer, detective es un policiaco clasico de factura impecable. Influida sin duda por la obra de Conan Doyle, en ella Tom se muestra como un detective deductivo de primer orden, acompanado de su fiel Huk Finn, que ejercera con entusiasmo el papel de doctor Watson, narrando la historia y asistiendo asombrado, como corresponde, a las portentosas capacidades deductivas de su...