- Fiction, Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character), American Authors, Biography
Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. In this novel, Tom turns detective, trying to solve a murder. Twain plays with and celebrates the detective novel, wildly popular at the time. This novel, like the others, is told through the first-person narrative of Huck Finn.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Mark Twain
- First published
- 1897
- Pages
- 92
- Publisher
- Blue Unicorn Editions, Quiet Vision, eBooksLib
- Editions
- 276
- Language
- ben, Portuguese, German, English
- ISBN
- 9798488723511
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“Well, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom's uncle Silas's farm in Arkansaw.”
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a prolific American author and humorist. Twain is best known for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
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