Four Adventures - Twain, Mark

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Résumé :
Mark Twain's most famous boys return in one substantial omnibus edition collecting all four Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn adventures. Included here are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective-four complete works of American adventure, humour, boyhood mischief, danger, friendship, satire, and sharp social observation. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are among the most enduring characters in American literature: restless, clever, reckless, loyal, and forever drawn toward trouble. From the fences, caves, rivers, rafts, small-town secrets, and moral dangers of Missouri to later comic adventures abroad and in detective fiction, Twain uses their escapades to capture childhood freedom while also exposing the absurdities, cruelties, and contradictions of adult society. This Wilder Publications omnibus brings the full Tom and Huck sequence together in one convenient volume of more than five hundred pages. For readers interested in classic American fiction, Mark Twain, humorous adventure, children's classics, Mississippi River stories, nineteenth-century literature, satire, and complete single-volume editions, The Complete Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Adventures offers the essential sequence in a substantial and economical form....

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Mark Twain (1835-1910), the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was one of America's most influential writers and humorists. Best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain combined vernacular speech, satire, and sharp social observation to create enduring works of American literature. His fiction and essays examine themes of freedom, hypocrisy, technological progress, and moral contradiction, securing his place as a central figure in nineteenth-century American letters....