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Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe?

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainIm unfavorable to killin a man as long as you can git around it; it aint good sense, it aint good morals. Aint I right?The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twains masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duk...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

It was midnight. Tom and his friend Huck Finn were hiding in a dark graveyard, near the grave of the wicked Horse Williams. They were waiting to see if devils would come to take his body away.It was awfully quiet. Suddenly Tom pulled Hucks arm. He had heard voices, and through the trees they saw a light. Someone was coming towards them ...The three men were not devils, but what Tom and Huck saw that night filled them with horror, and led to many more adventures.These, plus running away from home...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.ISBN: 9780194234115Nr pagini: 48 pagesFormat: 129 x 198 x 3mm | 85gAnul aparitiei: 15 Mar 2008

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.''Set in 16th-Century England and following the lives of two young boys, The Prince and the Pauper is a classic and timeless tale. Tom Canty, the lowly pauper is almost identical in appearance to Edward Tudor, a prince. Unbeknownst to those around th...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.\\''An idyllic snapshot of a boy\\''s childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain\\''s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author\\''s work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.Mischievous and full of e...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''We said there warn\\''t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don\\''t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.\\''Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and t...

An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of `the great Father of Waters'. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality, and remains the most vivid, boisterous and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from `the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War.This new editi...

Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters: Tom Sawyer, 'Nigger Jim', and Huck Finn - together now on a fantastical balloon journey across the Atlantic to meet lions and Bedouins in the Sahara and retrace something of Twain's own expedition to the Holy Land in his best-selling The Innocents Abroad (1869).Later, in Tom Sawyer Dete...