The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning
American youth. Mark Twain’s lively tale of the scrapes and adventures
of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his
friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can
imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky
Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a
cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.
One
of the most famous incidents in the book describes how Tom persuades
his friends to do a boring, hateful chore for him: whitewashing (i.e.,
painting) a fence.
This was the first novel to be written on a typewriter.
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