num_pages: 528
description: Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried.Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken and brutal father, and meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay and intellectual impoverishment.
language: English
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
titlecomplete: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
genres: Classics, Adventure, American, Banned Books, Childrens, Young Adult, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 41321
series: Adventures of Tom and Huck
publisher: Grosset & Dunlap