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  2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Wikipedia

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is a novel by Mark Twain published on 9 June 1876 about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri , where Twain lived as a boy. [ 2 ]

  3. Tom Sawyer - Wikipedia

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    Sawyer 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.

  4. Stephen King gives blunt three-word response after ... - AOL

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    Stephen King has given a blunt three-word response to discovering that 23 of his books have been banned from school ... World by Aldous Huxley and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ...

  5. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain: Coarse language, racial stereotypes 1876 — — 83 Alice (series) Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Sexual content 1985–2013 21 2 14 All American Boys: Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

  6. Huckleberry Finn - Wikipedia

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    Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).

  7. Mark Twain - Wikipedia

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    Huckleberry Finn was an offshoot from Tom Sawyer and had a more serious tone than its predecessor. Four hundred manuscript pages were written in mid-1876, right after the publication of Tom Sawyer. The last fifth of Huckleberry Finn is subject to much controversy. Some say that Twain experienced a "failure of nerve," as critic Leo Marx puts it.

  8. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Wikipedia

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    Huckleberry Finn, as depicted by E. W. Kemble in the original 1884 edition of the book. In St. Petersburg, Missouri, during the 1830s–1840s, Huckleberry Finn has received a considerable sum of money following The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson become his guardians.

  9. The Mysterious Stranger - Wikipedia

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    A scene from The Chronicle of Young Satan was adapted in the 1985 claymation film The Adventures of Mark Twain, wherein Satan invites Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher to his company, displaying his powers to manifest things at will. He invites them to construct small clay people, which he brings to life and places in a small kingdom.