{"product_id":"2940150947764","title":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer : [Special Illustrated Edition] [Free Audio Links]","description":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Sawyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas \"Tom\" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse Hill, and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant fireman named Tom Sawyer whom Twain was acquainted with in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter at the San Francisco Call. Twain used to listen to Sawyer tell stories of his youth, \"Sam, he would listen to these pranks of mine with great interest and he'd occasionally take 'em down in his notebook. One day he says to me: 'I am going to put you between the covers of a book some of these days, Tom.' 'Go ahead, Sam,' I said, 'but don't disgrace my name.'\" Twain himself said the character sprang from three people, later identified as: John B. Briggs (who died in 1907), William Bowen (who died in 1893) and Twain; however Twain later changed his story saying Sawyer was fully formed solely from his imagination, but as Robert Graysmith says, \"The great appropriator liked to pretend his characters sprang fully grown from his fertile mind.\"","brand":"Starbooks Classics Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073570291952,"sku":"2940150947764","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150947764_p0.jpg?v=1763757118","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150947764","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}