A charming, quiet town on the Mississippi, a sun-drenched green valley, simple and touching people, an atmosphere of play and romance... Such is Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' a harmonious and joyful book.
This exciting story about the ringleader, the boys' chieftain Tom Sawyer and his friend, the street kid Huckleberry Finn, almost immediately became a classic of children's literature. At the same time, Mark Twain assured that his book 'is not at all for children, oh no. It will interest only an adult. It is written for adults.' Refusing to succumb to ideas about how well-behaved boys should behave, the cheerful and daring (and at the same time different, and each one is an individual!) tomboys Tom and Huck became the embodiment of the 'American dream.' With courage, enthusiasm, and self-confidence, they achieve their right to freedom and happiness - at school and at church; On the wooded Jackson Island, as pirates; at a court hearing, when an innocent man needs to be saved; in a creepy abandoned house where treasure is hidden, and in the labyrinths of McDougal's Cave.