Adventures of Tom Sawyer - by Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Samuel Clemens' best work, is especially evident in the novels set in his boyhood world beside the Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer (1876) and his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).  Others in the series include Tom Saywer Abroad and Tom Saywer Detective. MOST of the adventures recorded in this book (Tom Sawyer) really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual -- he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture. Uploaded with permission of Bob Hicks (pdcbob@aol.com) of America Online's PDA Forum.