The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A Kaplan Vocabulary-Building Classic for Young Readers
Mark Twainwas born Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His humorous tales of human nature, especiallyThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876) andThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884), remain standard texts in high school and college literature classes. Twain was born and died in years in which Halley's Comet passed by Earth: 1835 and 1910.