What is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer really about?

Thomas "Tom" Sawyer (/ˈsɔːjər/) is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ...

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Sawyer, 32, who was born in Brooklyn, had been a torch boy in New York for Columbia Hook and Ladder Company Number 14, and in San Francisco he had battled fire ...

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Certainly no real person born in the 1830s would still be living, but Tom, Huck and Jim still live to their books' fans, just as Sherlock ...

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Twain named his fictional character after a San Francisco fireman whom he met in June 1863. The real Tom Sawyer was a local hero, famous for rescuing 90 ...

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The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (who Mark Twain met during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter)

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Brief biography of Tom Sawyer, pioneer founder of one of the San Francisco Fire Department companies. Reputed to have been the namesake for Mark Twain's ...

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TIL the real Tom Sawyer was a firefighter and local San Francisco hero in the 1860s. That's where he met Mark Twain.

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Mark Twain stated that the character and personality of his fictional creation, Tom Sawyer, was a combination of himself as a boy plus two other boys that he ...

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