‘In this book, Twain anticipates every modern American novel, from Salinger to Pynchon’

Guardian.

Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold.

But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe?