~ 1876 ~
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a timeless novel about a boy growing up in the 1840s in St. Petersburg, Missouri. The story follows Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn as they embark on various adventures. Throughout the novel, Twain provides satirical commentary on American society and the concept of boyhood. The novel was a commercial failure at first but became Twain’s best-selling work during his lifetime. Today, it is considered a masterpiece of American literature and is often taught in schools. The book's setting is based on Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, and many of the places in it are real and support a tourist industry.