Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective


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These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Both with the original illustrations by Dan Beard and A.B. Frost. "Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn’t. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of these once-celebrated but now little-known sequels to his own adventures. Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas and see some of the world’s greatest wonders.




Tom Sawyer, Detective and Tom Sawyer Abroad


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Tom Sawyer, Detective finds Tom and Huck involved in a diamond heist, and in Tom Sawyer Abroad they stowaway on a trip to Africa for encounters with lions, robbers, and the Sphinx.




The Oxford Mark Twain (Full Set)


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Presents facsimile first editions of Twain's works that include all original illustrations. Each volume contains introductions by literary heavyweights including Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley, among others.







Tom Sawyer Abroad. Tom Sawyer, Detective


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The adventures of Tom Sawyer go on! This time together with his friends he decided to go abroad to get rich and become independent. The friends also dream about this. A cheerful group of friends set off on a long journey in a hot air balloon. The long way above America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Sahara desert and Egypt is ahead of them. They will also have a nice bit of difficult times and amazing adventures. Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn are not only free swinging boys and adventurers. Tom showed an amazing observation together with other unusual skills and became a real detective that helped not only find the thief of diamonds out, solve the artful murder but also save an innocent person from prison. The book is written as a parody on detective style, the narration is told in the first person of Huckleberry Finn.







Tom Sawyer Abroad


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Contents. Tom Sawyer abroad. - Tom Sawyer, detective.




Tom Sawyer Abroad


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'Tom Sawyer abroad' originally published in 1894; 'Tom Sawyer detective' first published in 1896.




Tom Sawyer Abroad, - Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories


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This antiquarian volume comprises a collection of stories written by Mark Twain, including "Tom Sawyer Abroad"; "Tom Sawyer, Detective"; "The Stolen White Elephant", and many more. This marvellous collection of Twain’s masterful literature would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author. The stories of this collection include: “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, “Tom Sawyer, Detective”, “The Stolen White Elephant”, “Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion”, “The Pacts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut”, “About Magnanimous-Incident Literature”, “Pinch, Brothers, Punch”, “The Great Revolution in Pitcairn”, and more. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884). Other notable works by this author include: “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” (1873), “The Innocents Abroad” (1896), and “The Prince and the Pauper” (1881). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing these classic works now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.




Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective (2 Books)


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Book One Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. It is a sequel, set in the time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series. Book Two: Tom Sawyer, Detective Is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and a prequel to Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.