The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Contributors: James Dickey (Introduction)
Edition: 1st Signet Classic printing (10)
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780451522726
Copyright date: 1980
First sentence: "TOM!" No answer.
Description: ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER 
Here is a light-hearted excursion into boyhood, a nostalgic return to the simple, rural Missouri world of Tom Sawyer, his Aunt Polly, and his friends Huck Finn and Becky. It is a dreamlike world of summertime and hooky, pranks and punishments, villains and desperate adventure, seen through the eyes of a very special boy. For adults it re-creates the vanished dreams of youth. For younger readers it unveils the boundaries of tantalizing horizons still to come. And for everyone, it reveals the heart and mind of one of America's greatly loved writers. 

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN 
He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a hogshead. He's Huck Finn, a homeless waif, a liar and thief on occasion, and a casual rebel against respectability. But on the day that he encounters a runaway slave named Jim, Huck also finds love, acceptance, and responsibility. And it is during the course of the exciting and moving story of these two outcasts fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft that the boy nobody wants becomes a human being with a sense of his own destiny and the courage to choose between the conventional world and the person who needs him the most. As Ernest Hemingway said of this glorious novel: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

With an Introduction by James Dickey.