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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Audio Book
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author:
Mark Twain
Reader: Patrick Fraley
Revel in a rambunctious tale of childhood beloved by generations. Complete and unabridged, this definitive performance by one of America's virtuoso character voice actors is a fitting tribute to Twain's storytelling genius. "The humor and high-spirited adventure of Mark Twain's classic are here in full in this exuberant performance... This is that rare audiobook that can truly be enjoyed by all ages."—Billboard
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Available Audio Book Editions:
| H65307 |
UNABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 6 ) |
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Publish Date: 01/07/2003
ISBN: 9781572703070
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| H90010 |
Unabridged |
Cassettes (5) |
$22.95 |
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Synopsis:
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Chronicles the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.
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Book Reviews:
| "The story is a wonderful study of the boy-mind, which inhabits a world quite distinct from that in which he is bodily present with his elders, and in this lies its great charm and its universality, for boy-nature, however human nature varies, is the same everywhere." |
| Atlantic Monthly - William Dean Howells (May 1876) |
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| "Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in." |
| - Mark Twain (1876) |
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Author Bio:
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Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River. As a teenager, he began writing short sketches for his brother's newspaper. When he was older, Clemens became a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, a job that ended with the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. He continued to work as a newspaper reporter, and in 1863 began signing his articles with the name Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning "two fathoms deep." In 1865, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, and became a sensation nationwide. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER was published in 1876, but it was its sequel, HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884), that is acknowledged as Twain's greatest work. A masterpiece of American literature, the novel is notable among other things for its uniquely American subject and its brilliant use of dialect. Twain's works in general are full of the author's satiric humor, his disdain for pretension and hypocrisy, and his brilliant characterizations.
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