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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
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Everyman's library volume 44
Pub. Date
[1991]
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English
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A simplified retelling of the classic story of the mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Beckey Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.
4) Tom and Huck
Pub. Date
2002.
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Full screen version.
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English
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Tom Sawyer and his friend Huck witness a midnight killing which leads to all kinds of difficulties when they swear not to reveal what they saw.
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Español
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La universalidad de esta obra de Mark Twain se debe a su gran manejo de la prosa, al uso admirable del vocabulario coloquial y por sobre todo, a su extraordinario sentido del humor. Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es un texto plagado de sopresas y aventuras, con personajes entranables, tomados de la vida real, que protagonizan una historia increible y aluciante. Tom y Huck, dos amigos inseparables aunque distintos entre si, y la pequena Becky, de quien...
7) Tom Sawyer
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Mark Twain's boy hero enters a cave with Huck and Becky to save Muff Potter, witness to murder.
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[2017]
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English
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In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than leave it, returning east with his new wife, Becky Thatcher, to learn the law from her father. Huck, abandoned and "dreadful lonely," hires himself out...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
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English
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Based on the classic novel "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" comes the newest adaptation of this timeless tale. Tom Sawyer has nothing but pranks and mischief on his mind, but luckily his fearless friend Huck Finn loves adventure as much as he does. When the daring duo witness trouble in a graveyard, Tom and Huck are thrown head-first into adventure, putting their courage to the test!
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[1999]
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English
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In Little Mary Sunshine, a tiny orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy young man in France. In Tom Sawyer, Tom finds fun and adventure with his friends Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn, running away to hide out on Jackson's Island and pretending to be Mississippi River pirates. When Tom is believed dead by his grieving Aunt Polly, he sneaks back to town to attend his own funeral.
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2015.
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Vietnamese
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
"...Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Tom Sawyer...về thực chất, đó là cuộc đấu tranh dai dẳng, kiên trì để thoát ra khỏi mọi ước lệ xã hội cùng những thói tục cổ hữu đang đè nặng trên vai người nông dân Mỹ thế kỷ XIX...Qua câu chuyện, nhà văn cũng chỉ trích...
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Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Designed to encourage children to read original classical literature either on their own or with the help of the more experienced readers in their lives, this story is a simple retelling of the adventures of Tom and his friends, who witness a murder by the villainous Injun Joe and sail the Mississippi River pretending to be pirates.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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A simple retelling of the adventures of Tom and his friends, who witness a murder by the villainous Injun Joe and sail the Mississippi River pretending to be pirates.
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town as he witnesses a crime, hunts for the pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
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"Storybook Classics 2 DVD Collection brings timeless childhood stories to life. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages"--Container.
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