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    Tom Sawyer Abroad
    Tom Sawyer Abroad
    Tom Sawyer Abroad
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    Tom Sawyer Abroad

    By Mark Twain

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    “Tom Sawyer Abroad” is Mark Twain's 1894 novel featuring Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. A sequel to Twain's famous “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, this parody of a classic adventure story follows Tom, Jim and Huck as they journey by hot air balloon to Africa, where they encounter all manner of excitement and danger. A wonderful example of Twain's unforgettable work not to be missed by fans of the timeless Tom Sawyer series. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884). Other notable works by this author include: “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” (1873), “The Innocents Abroad” (1896), and “The Prince and the Pauper” (1881). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead & Co. Classics
    Release dateDec 7, 2020
    ISBN9781528791762
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. 

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    • 4/5
      This was surprisingly good. Mark Twain manages to keep the writing, tone, explorative sense, and wonder from the first two books of the series and continues it here. Everything found there still resides here and is fresh to boot. I recommend this for any who like his classics, or those interested in American literature.4 stars!
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      Short review: I liked this much more than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Looking forward to reading Tom Sawyer Detective.
    • 5/5
      In the book "Tom Sawer" a boy named Tom lives in the state of Mississippi in the year 1876. Tom is constantly getting into trouble and has genious ways to get out of them. When he was told by his aunt to paint her fence white, he convinsed his friend Joe that it was fun and made him do it. In school Tom met a new student named Becky how he instantly falls in love with. After trying to show off and convincing her to be ingaged with him, she finds out that he was already ingaged a while ago and breaks his hearts by spliting up with him. Out raged and felling that nobody loves him, he desides to become a pirate and live free without worrying about girls and going to boring sunday school. When he tells Hucklberry Fin and Joe about the leave, they join him and become pirates. To make them selves unseen that build a raft and diside to live John Island that no one els lived on. After stealing ham and bacon, and exploring the island, the boys grew home sick and woundered if enyone missed them. Just to be sure, Tom visited his aunts house secretly and found her weaping with agony. Everyone in the town though the drowned in the river which cause all the suffering of his aunt. When the boys said that they would go to the funeral for them on Friday, they kept thinking how missrable the town is without them their. Once they arrived his aunt rushed to his side and cried out for joy. For days the town rejoyced, but after a few weeks the event was long forgotten. When Tom took Becky's punishment for ripping the school master's book, she forgave Tom and accepted him again. One night when Tom and Huck went to the grave yard to call on evil spirits, they saw Injun Joe was their with Muff Potter Injun murdured a man since he diffied him and gave the knife to drunk Muff to make the sheirf think he did it. When he was put on trial Tom stated he saw Injun do it and Injun crashed through the window to escape. When he wasn't found Tom and Huck became very freightened of the situation and constantly tried to lay low. When they felt the urge to find buried treasure, the searched a haunted house to see if they could find some. But as soon as they begain searching Injun Joe came in with a box that contained thousands of dollars and he planed to travel to Texas in a couple of days so he can seek his fortune. When the gang saw that book they were deturmened as ever to find it's hidding place and take it for themselves. When Joe menchened the number 2 they searched the nearest hotel until they found a 2 on the door. When they found it was unlocked, they saw Injun with beer bottels every where but the didn't enter fearing they might wake him. When he disappired again they decided to enjoy Becky's party in the cave instead of worrying about him. But when Becky and Tom went too deep into the cave they became very lost and candels and food ran out. When they were about to lose hope the found Injun Jones for a second and later found the entrence to the cave. When Tom told Huck were he found the treasure hiding spot the tried to go into they cave but found someone put a door on it. Right on the other side of the entrence was Injun dead from starvation in the cave. After they body was buried they traveled into the cave until they found a cross that located the treasure. After they took the fifty pound box up, Huck and Tom became rich with money. Huck grew tired of money and tried to run away because the servents made him wear fancy cloaths, shoes, and he had to eat with a knife and fork, and go to school. But Tom told Huck that he was very lucky to have such a life and that he would talk to the servents and make them tweck things up for him abit. This book is going on my list of classics I want to read. It is very inspiring and tells a good deal of what life was like back then. Unlike today people didn't have cars to travel and didn't take big trips to other places. They were more strick about going to church and having the children remember verses in the bible. They didn't have tv and had to find ways to entertian themself as well. Also if people comited murder instead of going to jail they would be hanged when found guilty too. 1876 is a very alian world compaired to ours now.

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    Tom Sawyer Abroad - Mark Twain

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    TOM SAWYER ABROAD

    By

    MARK TWAIN

    First published in 1894

    Copyright © 2020 Read & Co. Classics

    This edition is published by Read & Co. Classics,

    an imprint of Read & Co.

    This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any

    way without the express permission of the publisher in writing.

    British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

    A catalogue record for this book is available

    from the British Library.

    Read & Co. is part of Read Books Ltd.

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    www.readandcobooks.co.uk

    Contents

    Mark Twain

    CHAPTER I

    TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES

    CHAPTER II

    THE BALLOON ASCENSION

    CHAPTER III

    TOM EXPLAINS

    CHAPTER IV

    STORM

    CHAPTER V

    LAND

    CHAPTER VI

    IT’S A CARAVAN

    CHAPTER VII

    TOM RESPECTS THE FLEA

    CHAPTER VIII

    THE DISAPPEARING LAKE

    CHAPTER IX

    TOM DISCOURSES ON THE DESERT

    CHAPTER X

    THE TREASURE-HILL

    CHAPTER XI

    THE SAND-STORM

    CHAPTER XII

    JIM STANDING SIEGE

    CHAPTER XIII

    GOING FOR TOM’S PIPE

    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain, was born on 30 November, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, USA. He was born the day after a visit by Halley’s Comet, and died the day following its subsequent return in 1910.

    He is best known for the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often referred to as ‘the Great American Novel’.

    Hailed as ‘the father of American literature’ by William Faulkner, Twain was a friend of presidents, performers, entrepreneurs and royalty. His wit and satire endeared him to peers and critics alike. Twain spent most of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the inspirational setting for much of his later works. It was here that Twain started writing, contributing articles to his older brother, Orion’s newspaper. After a brief, unsuccessful, spell mining in Nevada and California, twain returned to writing – penning The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in 1865. This was a humorous tale based on a story heard at a mining camp in California, and won Twain international attention. Five years later, Twain married Olivia Langdon, the sister of Charles Langdon, a man whom Twain met on a trip to the Middle East.

    Upon Langdon showing a picture of his sister Olivia to Twain, Twain claimed to have fallen in love with her at first sight. Through Olivia, Twain met many prominent liberals, socialists and political activists, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, the abolitionist and author, as well as the utopian socialist, William Dean Howells. These connections deeply influenced Twain’s later political outlook, remaining firmly anti-imperialist, anti-organised religion, an abolitionist and a steady supporter of the labour movement. Twain and Olivia had three daughters, Susy, Clara and Jean, and one son, Langdon. Unfortunately Langdon died whilst he was still in infancy. The family spent many happy summers at Quarry Farm - Olivia’s sister’s home on the outskirts of New York, where Twain wrote many of his classic novels; The Adventures and Huckleberry Finn, as well as The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889). Despite these successes, financial as well as literary, Twain lost a great deal of money through investing in new technologies. His love of science and invention led him to invest a massive 300,000 dollars (about 8 million dollars today) in the Paige typesetting machine. This mechanical marvel was made redundant before it was even completed however, by the Linotype machine, and Twain lost his entire investment. As a result of this, on the advice from a friend, Twain filed for Bankruptcy. Fortunately, he was heavily in demand as a featured speaker, and embarked on a massive worldwide lecture tour in July 1895 to pay off all his creditors. After nearly five years travelling, Twain returned to America having earned enough money to pay off his debts. On his homecoming, Twain sadly suffered a period of deep depression, which began on his daughter Susy’s death in 1896, and worsened on the death of his wife in 1904 and his other daughter Jean in 1909. Twain died of a heart attack on 21 April, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut. He had predicted his death, the day after Halley’s comets closest approach to Earth; ‘It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’’

    He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York.

    TOM SAWYER ABROAD

    CHAPTER I

    TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES

    DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn’t. It only just p’isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah’d and shouted, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be.

    For a while he WAS satisfied. Everybody made much of him, and he tilted up his nose and stepped around the town as though he owned it. Some called him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled him up fit to bust. You see he laid over me and Jim considerable, because we only went down the river on a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went by the steamboat both ways. The boys envied me and Jim a good deal, but land! they just knuckled to the dirt before TOM.

    Well, I don’t know; maybe he might have been satisfied if it hadn’t been for old Nat Parsons, which was postmaster, and powerful long and slim, and kind o’ good-hearted and silly, and bald-headed, on account of his age, and about the talkiest old cretur I ever see. For as much as thirty years he’d been the only man in the village that had a reputation—I mean a reputation for being a traveler, and of course he was mortal proud of it, and it was reckoned that in the course of that thirty years he had told about that journey over a million times and enjoyed it every time. And now comes along a boy not quite fifteen, and sets everybody admiring and gawking over HIS travels, and it just give the poor old man the high strikes. It made him sick to listen to Tom, and to hear the people say My land! Did you ever! My goodness sakes alive! and all such things; but he couldn’t pull away from it, any more than a fly that’s got its hind leg fast in the molasses. And always when Tom come to a rest, the poor old cretur would chip in on HIS same old travels and work them for all they were worth; but they were pretty faded, and didn’t go for much, and it was pitiful to see. And then Tom would take another innings, and then the old man again—and so on, and so on, for an hour and more, each trying to beat out the other.

    You see, Parsons’ travels happened like this: When he first got to be postmaster and was green in the business, there come a letter for somebody he didn’t know, and there wasn’t any such person in the village. Well, he didn’t know what to do, nor how to act, and there the letter stayed and stayed, week in and week out, till the bare sight of it gave him a conniption. The postage wasn’t paid on it, and that was another thing to worry about. There wasn’t any way to collect that ten cents, and he reckon’d the gov’ment would hold him responsible for it and maybe turn him out besides, when they found he hadn’t collected it. Well, at last he couldn’t stand it any longer. He couldn’t sleep nights, he couldn’t eat, he was thinned down to a shadder, yet he da’sn’t ask anybody’s advice, for the very person he asked for advice might go back on him and let the gov’ment know about the letter. He had the letter buried under the floor, but that did no good; if he happened to see a person standing over the place it’d give him the cold shivers, and loaded him up with suspicions, and he would sit up that night till the town was still and dark, and then he would sneak there and get it out and bury it in another place. Of course, people got to avoiding him and shaking their heads and whispering, because, the way he was looking and acting, they judged he had killed somebody or done something terrible, they didn’t know what, and if he had been a stranger they would’ve lynched him.

    Well, as I was saying, it got so he couldn’t stand it any longer; so he made up his mind to pull out for Washington, and just go to the President of the United States and make a clean breast of the whole thing, not keeping back an atom, and then fetch the letter out and lay it before the whole gov’ment, and say, Now, there she is—do with me what you’re a mind to; though as heaven is my judge I am an innocent man and not deserving of the full penalties of the law and leaving behind me a family that must starve and yet hadn’t had a thing to do with it, which is the whole truth and I can swear to it.

    So he did it. He had a little wee bit of steamboating, and some stage-coaching, but all the rest of the way was horseback, and it took him three weeks to get to Washington. He saw lots of land and lots of villages and four cities. He was gone ’most eight weeks, and there never was such a proud man in the village as he

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