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    <body><![CDATA[I'm admittedly a fan of many of Mark Twain's works; so which to write up here at my social network? So I picked this one, because of me growing up three hours' south of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain's actual childhood hometown, which he paints a vivd picture of in this particular book, and which I visit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2874243">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am currently reading this to my boys.  I am not enjoying it at all.  I think my 8 year old likes it though.  I was really expecting to be more excited about this one.  =(  I wish I could get it to it.<br/><br/>Okay, maybe I am a weak reader, but I decided to read an abridged version instead to m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37214338">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It&#8217;s something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom&#8217;s sly trickery with the whitewashed fence&#8212;when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him&#8212;to his and Becky Thatcher&#8217;s calamities in McDougal's Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch &amp; Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.<br/><br/>Scott created these drawings in scratchboard ;­ an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.<br/><br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's Twain, what can I say?<br/><br/>I thought this a classic adventure story. There were moments I found more endearing than others: like when Tom takes the beating for Becky...though I was, of course, bothered by the whole teacher-whacking-a-student thing. But that was then, no escaping it. I al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74527845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, <em>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</em> is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality&#151;base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery. In his introduction, noted Twain scholar John Seelye considers Twain's impact on American letters and discusses the balance between humorous escapades and serious concern that is found in much of Twain's writing.<br/><br/>Introduction by Guy Cardwell.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose to read &quot;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer&quot; by Mark Twain because I have never read the book and being an English major who really enjoys Mark Twain, that just seemed wrong. Also, we were on vacation in Greece, and &quot;Tom Sawyer,&quot; along with &quot;Arabian Nights,&quot; &quot;Rob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71163906">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ <p>Here is the story of Tom, Huck, Becky, and Aunt Polly; a tale of adventures, pranks, playing hookey, and summertime fun. Written by the author sometimes called &quot;the Lincoln of literature,&quot; <em>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</em> was surprisingly neither a critical nor a financial success when it was first published in 1876. It was Mark Twain's first novel. However, since then <em>Tom Sawyer</em> has become his most popular work, enjoying dramatic, film, and even Broadway musical interpretations.<p> </p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not read this book in middle school/high school (or whenever it was that I was supposed to read it), so it's part of my attempt to read classics that I should have read.  My first impression when I began reading it was pleasant but annoyed by the speech patterns and thought processes of the ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68543939">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was young, my mother's only brother lived not too far from Hannibal (Samuel Clemens childhood home). Whenever we visited them in Missouri, we would make a trip to Hannibal. So when my husband and I were planning this summer's road trip and I saw we could easily route through Hannibal, I decid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61721991">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[     Tom Sawyer lives in St. Petersburg, Missouri with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid.  One day, Tom plays hooky and gets into a fight.  He gets in trouble and has to paint the fence white.  Then he goes to sunday school and says that the first two deciples were David and Goliath.  Becky Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53772641">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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