TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE - Mark Twain

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Résumé :
Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain presents the familiar characters of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in a lively tale of mystery and adventure. Narrated once again by Huck Finn, the story follows Tom and Huck as they travel to the Mississippi Delta and become entangled in a perplexing crime. When a murder accusation threatens an innocent man, Tom applies his sharp curiosity and inventive reasoning to unravel the truth behind the mystery. Blending humour, suspense, and Twain's characteristic storytelling voice, the narrative playfully adapts the conventions of detective fiction while maintaining the adventurous spirit that made the earlier Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn stories so widely beloved. Although shorter than Twain's major novels, Tom Sawyer, Detective offers an engaging glimpse of the famous characters in a different setting, combining youthful adventure with the emerging popularity of detective stories at the end of the nineteenth century....

Biographie:
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was one of the most celebrated writers in American literature. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Missouri, he adopted the pen name Mark Twain while working as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.Twain achieved international fame through novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, works that combined humour, adventure, and sharp observations about American society. His writing often drew upon his experiences along the Mississippi River and in the rapidly changing United States of the nineteenth century.In addition to his major novels, Twain wrote numerous essays, travel narratives, and shorter works that showcased his wit, storytelling skill, and keen insight into human nature....