Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of

US novelist, humorist, and satirist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in 1904. Writing under his celebrated pseudonym Mark Twain, his two classic novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn drew heavily on his own background and boyhood experiences along the Mississippi river. Other works, such as The Innocents Abroadand A Tramp Abroad, reflect his extensive travels as a reporter and lecturer.

Novel (1876) by US author Mark Twain. It describes the childhood escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper in a small Mississippi community before the Civil War. It and its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) are remarkable for their rejection of the high moral tone prevalent in 19th-century children's literature.