內容簡介:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg - whether getting his friends to whitewash a fence for him, or escaping the demands of his vigilant Aunt Polly - have won him the hearts of generations.
湯姆·索亞是個聰明、機智的孩子,既對束縛心智的課堂有所不滿,又不甘心受制于小鎮(zhèn)上落后、褊狹的民風的桎梏,他開始逃學,并仿照行俠仗義的好漢故事在小伙伴們中組成了一個天真爛漫的強盜幫,經(jīng)歷了一次又一次滑稽幽默、充滿童趣的冒險。
作者簡介:MARK TWAIN's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Twain worked first as a printer and then as a pilot on Mississippi steamboats. Twain later worked as a prospector, a journalist and a publisher. Twain wrote many books but his most famous works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain died in 1910.
馬克·吐溫(Mark Twain,1835年11月30日-1910年4月21日),原名薩繆爾·蘭亨·克萊門 (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (射手座)是美國的幽默大師、小說家、作家,也是著名演說家,19世紀后期美國現(xiàn)實主義文學的杰出代表。