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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain · 37 parts · about 5 hours 50 minutes of reading

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Tom Sawyer would rather fish, scheme, and hunt for treasure than go to school, and somehow he keeps landing in the middle of real danger. Twain's boyhood classic is pure summer: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, and a cave you really should not wander into.

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Contents

Preface1 minChapter I: Tom Plays, Fights, and Hides12 minChapter II: The Glorious Whitewasher9 minChapter III: Busy at War and Love11 minChapter IV: Showing Off in Sunday School17 minChapter V: The Pinch-Bug and His Prey10 minChapter VI: Tom Meets Becky17 minChapter VII: Tick-Running and a Heartbreak10 minChapter VIII: A Pirate Bold to Be9 minChapter IX: Tragedy in the Graveyard11 minChapter X: Dire Prophecy of the Howling Dog10 minChapter XI: Conscience Racks Tom7 minChapter XII: The Cat and the Painkiller8 minChapter XIII: The Pirate Crew Set Sail12 minChapter XIV: Happy Camp of the Freebooters10 minChapter XV: Tom’s Stealthy Visit Home8 minChapter XVI: First Pipes—“I’ve Lost My Knife”16 minChapter XVII: Pirates at Their Own Funeral6 minChapter XVIII: Tom Reveals His Dream Secret14 minChapter XIX: The Cruelty of “I Didn’t Think”4 minChapter XX: Tom Takes Becky’s Punishment8 minChapter XXI: Eloquence—and the Master’s Guilded Dome11 minChapter XXII: Huck Finn Quotes Scriptures5 minChapter XXIII: The Salvation of Muff Potter10 minChapter XXIV: Splendid Days and Fearsome Nights2 minChapter XXV: Seeking the Buried Treasure10 minChapter XXVI: Real Robbers Seize the Box of Gold13 minChapter XXVII: Trembling on the Trail5 minChapter XXVIII: In the Lair of Injun Joe5 minChapter XXIX: Huck Saves the Widow13 minChapter XXX: Tom and Becky in the Cave15 minChapter XXXI: Found and Lost Again15 minChapter XXXII: “Turn Out! They’re Found!”5 minChapter XXXIII: The Fate of Injun Joe17 minChapter XXXIV: Floods of Gold4 minChapter XXXV: Respectable Huck Joins the Gang9 minConclusion1 min

Source: Standard Ebooks. Published 1876. Author died 1910. Public domain worldwide. Share this book: WhatsApp

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