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Tom Sawyer Abroad
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In this Mark Twain novel, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Jim travel by hot-air balloon across the Atlantic and over the deserts of Africa, encountering various adventures narrated by Huck. It suits readers interested in classic American fiction and light adventure stories.
*(Note: the 2004 date reflects a reprint edition; the work was first published in 1894.)*
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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