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THE ADVENTURES
OF TOM SAWYER
Mark Twain
Harper Press
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Life & Times section by Gerard Cheshire
Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from
Collins English Dictionary
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Source ISBN: 9780007420117
Ebook Edition APRIL 2012 ISBN: 9780007480685
Version: 2015-04-15
CONTENTS
Classic Literature: Words and Phrases Adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual: he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite