Tom Sawyer: Koulupojan Historia

Whitewashing a fence shouldn't be fun. But Tom Sawyer makes it the most desirable job in town, trading his chore away to other boys who practically pay him for the privilege. That's the kind of irresistible logic that drives Mark Twain's affectionate portrait of boyhood in 1840s Missouri, where summer stretches forever and the Mississippi River holds every secret a boy could want. Tom is equal parts schemer and dreamer. With his best friend Huck Finn, he hunts for buried treasure, plays pirate on Jackson's Island, and stumbles through the graveyard at midnight with consequences no boy should have to face. He falls desperately in love with Becky Thatcher, lies his way out of trouble with a confidence that would impress a diplomat, and proves again and again that the rules of the adult world were made to be bent. This is Twain remembering his own boyhood with a writer's eye for what matters: the grand theater of childhood, the terror and thrill of growing up, and the particular magic of a Mississippi summer when anything was possible.