The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg inspired by Hannibal Missouri where Twain lived as a boy.[2] In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime.[3][4]Although The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is sometimes overshadowed by its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the book is considered a masterpiece of American literature[5] and was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter.