"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a masterpiece of American literature and was Mark Twain's best-selling novel. Though not a commercial success at first, it eventually became enormously popular and prompted Twain to write a sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Both books are now considered to be among the finest American books ever written.

The story chronicles the life of its eponymous hero, an orphan boy living with his strict Aunt Polly in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri along the Mississippi River (a stand-in for Twain's own home town of Hannibal). Tom is the epitome of American boyhood in the 1800's: brash, adventurous, and eager to ditch school and run off with his friend Huck Finn to fish and swim along the river. But when the boys witness a murder, they are torn between helping an innocent man escape an unjust punishment...or risk the wrath of the real murderer, the sinister Injun Joe.

Easily one of the most popular books in the canon of American literature, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is presented here in its original and unabridged format, just as it first appeared in 1876.