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Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Language
English
First published
1876
Reading time
304 minutes
Chapters
37 chapters

About this book

Tom Sawyer would rather do anything than go to school or whitewash his Aunt Polly's fence, and he has a gift for talking other boys into doing his work for him.

In the sleepy Mississippi river town of St. Petersburg he plays at pirates and robbers, falls for the new girl, Becky Thatcher, and roams about with Huckleberry Finn, the son of the town drunkard. Mark Twain drew on his own Missouri boyhood for this comic, nostalgic and sometimes thrilling novel of 1876. Read it for its mischief, its adventure and its affectionate picture of childhood.

Most of the adventures recorded in this book 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…

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  • Source

    Project Gutenberg (eBook #74)

    Text version

    Project Gutenberg eBook #74 (updated 10 May 2025), downloaded 7 November 2026; the file does not name its print edition. The title page, the contents list (with chapter summaries) and the list of illustrations were not imported. The author's preface (Hartford, 1876), the 35 chapters with Twain's own footnotes, and his closing "Conclusion" are unchanged; the file has no illustrations in the text.

  • License

    Public domain

    Copyright status last verified: 9 November 2026

  • Category

    Classic Novels

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Chapters

37 chapters
  1. Preface1 min
  2. Chapter I11 min
  3. Chapter II9 min
  4. Chapter III10 min
  5. Chapter IV15 min
  6. Chapter V9 min
  7. Chapter VI16 min
  8. Chapter VII9 min
  9. Chapter VIII8 min
  10. Chapter IX10 min
  11. Chapter X9 min
  12. Chapter XI7 min
  13. Chapter XII8 min
  14. Chapter XIII11 min
  15. Chapter XIV9 min
  16. Chapter XV8 min
  17. Chapter XVI14 min
  18. Chapter XVII5 min
  19. Chapter XVIII13 min
  20. Chapter XIX4 min
  21. Chapter XX8 min
  22. Chapter XXI10 min
  23. Chapter XXII5 min
  24. Chapter XXIII9 min
  25. Chapter XXIV2 min
  26. Chapter XXV9 min
  27. Chapter XXVI12 min
  28. Chapter XXVII5 min
  29. Chapter XXVIII5 min
  30. Chapter XXIX12 min
  31. Chapter XXX14 min
  32. Chapter XXXI13 min
  33. Chapter XXXII5 min
  34. Chapter XXXIII15 min
  35. Chapter XXXIV4 min
  36. Chapter XXXV8 min
  37. Conclusion1 min

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