Publisher's Synopsis
Annotations This book is unique because it contains a literary criticism that was made by Juan AcevedoTom Sawyer is a child like any other person in the southern United States of the nineteenth century, who lives in a town called Saint Petersburg on the banks of the Mississippi, a boy with too much energy, a rebel with a big heart and a lot of innocence, who together with his friends, especially Huckleberry Finn, lives adventures that will take them to face their fears in a time and space in which childhood gives the human being the days he will remember the rest of his life.Mark Twain manages to create an endearing character, a child that represents the inner child that carries all adults and a character with whom any child reader can be identified, always dreaming and creating fantasies, a free heart that hates the school's duties but very intelligent, that with small tricks he always manages to get away with it, even if he has to face the consequences.The author creates very good characters, all interesting from Aunt Polly to the Indian Joe, in a bucolic environment in which life goes slowly but the adventures are on the surface, a perfect place for love to arise, a love represented in Becky, the new girl from the town that Tom Sawyer is pledged to, so he will do everything possible to get his attention.Although if the reader believes that everything is beauty, you will find in the middle of the novel a sordid situation that will lead Tom, Huck and Becky to have to face an enemy that from their eyes as children can be the opportunity to be famous in a town where nothing ever happensThe story created by Mark Twain is without a doubt exquisite, tender, memorable, an essential classic that can be read at any age, a whole bucolic painting of remembrances of childhood, a vertiginous adventure that will make the novice or experienced reader enjoy .Life in Saint Petersburg, a small town on the banks of the Mississippi in the southwestern United States, is so peaceful that it can even be boring. But Tom Sawyer, a curious and mischievous boy, is able to take advantage of any daily event, such as painting a fence, or not so everyday, like chasing an evil murderer or going in search of a treasure hidden in a cave, accompanied by his inseparable friend Huck.