Twain/Clemmens: Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

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"Mark Twain's popular novel Tom Sawyer is loosely based on the childhood of Samuel Clemens in Hannibal, Missouri, Clemens being Twain's real name. The character of Tom Sawyer appears as well in its sequel and Twain's masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, and in Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two of Twain's lesser works. The Tom of Tom Sawyer and the Tom of Huckleberry Finn are similar but are given different treatment, for Tom in the later novel is something of a hindrance to Huck and has become so enamored of European adventure fiction that he cannot behave without a book to guide his actions. In Tom Sawyer, Tom is more the average boy, more intelligent than most, but eager to explore the world and assert his youthful prerogatives at every turn. Tom has a rebellious nature perfectly complemented by the more natural Huck Finn, and he is the instigator of a variety of youth(...)"

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