Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Descubre esta obra maestra de
Mark Twain gracias a la preciosa

edicion de la coleccion Alfaguara Clasicos ilustrada por Dani
Torrent.

Tom Sawyer es un chico travieso que
siempre va en busca de aventuras.

Junto a el conoceremos a su querida tia Polly y a Huckleberry Finn, su

inseparable amigo, con el que siempre acaba metido en algun
lio.

Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es una
mirada nostalgica a la inocencia de la infancia.

Clasicos inolvidables para
disfrutar, compartir y dejar volar la imaginacion.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along
the Mississippi River.

The story is set in the fictional town of St.
Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. Tom Sawyer
lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Tom dirties his clothes
in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He
cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege
of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School tickets
which one normally receives for memorizing verses, redeeming them for a
Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who
thought it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand
sheaves of Scriptural wisdom on his premises-a dozen would strain his
capacity, without a doubt. Tom falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new
girl in town, and persuades her to get engaged by kissing him.
But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been engaged

previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies
Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of
Dr. Robinson.