Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

This book contains both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and the sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a bildungsroman, or coming of age, novel that follows the adventures of a young boy named, Tom Sawyer, as he grows up along the Mississippi River towards the end of the nineteenth century. The setting is a fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Twain's home town of Hannibal, Missouri. The novel has become quintessential Americana. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the sequel novel to Mark Twains, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The story is a direct sequel to the first novel and follows the protagonist's best friend from the first novel as told in first person. The novel gained notoriety for using vernacular English throughout as well as its colorful painting of the American Midwest and Antebellum South. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.