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Tom Sawyer Abroad
(Adventures of Tom and Huck #3)
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Tom Sawyer Abroad features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne.
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Paperback, 108 pages
Published
March 25th 2002
by Borgo Press
(first published 1894)
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Tom Sawyer:
Huck Finn:
Jim:
Hot air balloon:
Add all of the above together and you have the third installment of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn adventures. The trio I mentioned (and showed) above ended up on a hot air balloon which brought them to Northern Africa deserts. It is a good book.
The biggest problem with the book is the one I already mention: it is a good book. Do I make any sense here? Consider this: the first book is the classic of children literature; the second one is the classic of ...more
Huck Finn:
Jim:
Hot air balloon:
Add all of the above together and you have the third installment of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn adventures. The trio I mentioned (and showed) above ended up on a hot air balloon which brought them to Northern Africa deserts. It is a good book.
The biggest problem with the book is the one I already mention: it is a good book. Do I make any sense here? Consider this: the first book is the classic of children literature; the second one is the classic of ...more
When I was growing up, we had a 3-books-in-1-volume set of Tom Sawyer tales. The first one was the classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I read it, laughed myself silly over some of the classic scenes, like Tom whitewashing the fence and feeding the cat his medicine, and started in on the two sequels with a high sense of anticipation. And they fell completely flat.
This is a mildly interesting kids' adventure tale, with Tom, Huck and Jim sailing over Africa in a hot air balloon. The characters a ...more
This is a mildly interesting kids' adventure tale, with Tom, Huck and Jim sailing over Africa in a hot air balloon. The characters a ...more
Not quite as good as the original books. In fact, I had to check and recheck to make sure that the same author actually wrote this book. It's that much of a departure.
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Apr 12, 2017
Dawn
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
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It was a visit to old friends Tom, Huck and Jim. This time three of them by accident fly to Africa in an extraordinary balloon. I love "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", but this one is nothing compared to them. Pointless book, in my opinion. It felt like imitating one of Jules Verne's stories. And the ending was abrupt and disappointing, as if Mark Twain just needed to finish his story quickly.
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If Tom Sawyer Detective is to the original Tom/Huck books what Bad News Bears Go to Japan was to the original, then Tom Sawyer is the Mark Twain equivalent of Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.
Tom, Huck, and the slave Jim get kidnapped by a mad scientist and taken to Africa on a tricked-out airship. Tom gives lessons on longitude and latitude, the time zones, the curvature of the Earth, and why countries really aren't the same color they appear to be on maps. Huck and Jim remain skeptical.
I ...more
Tom, Huck, and the slave Jim get kidnapped by a mad scientist and taken to Africa on a tricked-out airship. Tom gives lessons on longitude and latitude, the time zones, the curvature of the Earth, and why countries really aren't the same color they appear to be on maps. Huck and Jim remain skeptical.
I ...more
It says this was written by Huck Finn, but I have my doubts. For the most part, it sounded more like huckster than huckleberry. Huck, Tom and Jim take a balloon ride across the Atlantic, through the Sahara, and to Egypt, and basically nothing happens. Oh, there's some carnage along the way, but it's all thrown out with such insouciance and good humor that it's hard to care much or even get involved. At best, it's amusing and mildly diverting. But the whole exercise just feels like Twain cashing
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Tom Sawyer Abroad chronicles the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Jim in Africa in a hot air balloon. While I loved The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn this wasn't as funny. I did like it but I did not love it.
A weak plot and not as enjoyable but not terrible either.
3 stars ...more
A weak plot and not as enjoyable but not terrible either.
3 stars ...more
Away from social institutions, Tom is as much know-it-all as subversive.
With the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain created two of the seminal works of American literature, equally beloved by children and adults the world over.
Then, twenty years after the first and ten years after the second, he tossed off this incredulous nonsense, with Tom, Huck and Jim leaving the mudflats of the Mississippi in an airship captained by a mad professor.
Their journey takes them over the Atlantic to Africa where they take in the sights (carav ...more
Then, twenty years after the first and ten years after the second, he tossed off this incredulous nonsense, with Tom, Huck and Jim leaving the mudflats of the Mississippi in an airship captained by a mad professor.
Their journey takes them over the Atlantic to Africa where they take in the sights (carav ...more
I'm not completely sure about the legitimacy of the purported rivalry between Twain and Jules Verne, but this book certainly seems to point to one. I couldn't help but picture Verne as the pilot of the air-ship and the ridiculing townsfolk of St. Petersberg as the embodiment of Twain's disdain. The writing is superb and revisiting Tom, Huck, and Jim was (cliche) like visiting with old friends. Unfortunately, once Tom has dispatched with the air-shipman, the story meanders and deviates from plot-
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Mar 02, 2008
Daphne
rated it
really liked it
Recommends it for:
everyone willing to enjoy an american classic
Recommended to Daphne by:
Evy
Tom Sawyer, an American classic that I found very enjoyable. I was quite interested in the boy's life on the frontier and how different it was from now. It only makes me wish that today we'd be able to run in the woods and play in the river like they did but here in suburbs of Southern Callifonia, if we wanted to have a great adventure the closest thing we'd get was the sidewalk. I feel that kids today have missed out on a lot because what now with videogames, computers, ipods, cellphones, tv's,
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May 05, 2009
Erik Graff
rated it
did not like it
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
19th century little boys
Recommended to Erik by:
no one
Shelves:
literature
One can only imagine that Twain needed money desperately and quickly when he dashed off the miserable sequels to his magisterial Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom Sawyer Abroad is terrible, simply terrible and I imagine Tom Sawyer, Detective is also.
Whimsical nonsense from America's premier humorist who couldn't resist public demand for more Huck, Tom, and Jim. It succeeds only because it's Twain.
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This book was both a surprise and a disappointment. I had assumed that Tom and Huck would be adults, and had expected the book to be longer. Instead the book is quite short, and the story takes place not too long after the events of Huckleberry Finn.
The plot is so ridiculously impossible that the reader needs to suspend their disbelief quite a degree. However, it's still an interesting story, and the idea of flying off in a balloon is an engaging one.
Unfortunately Twain dumbed down his charact ...more
The plot is so ridiculously impossible that the reader needs to suspend their disbelief quite a degree. However, it's still an interesting story, and the idea of flying off in a balloon is an engaging one.
Unfortunately Twain dumbed down his charact ...more
There were places expecially at the beginning that made me laugh out loud. For the most part while I found it enjoyable it was not on the par of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which were both masterpieces. This story was a parody which related more to Jules Verne with humor than to Mark Twain. In this story Tom, Huck Finn (who is the narrative voice) and the slave Jim are taken away in a balloon by a crafty and insane professor. They head eastward over the USA
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Kind of a slog to get through - thankfully it was very short. The story basically has Tom, Huck, and Jim take a hot air balloon across America, across the Ocean, all the way to Egypt and the Holy Land. They spend most of the book just talking but there is no real buildup or excitement in the story. There were a few parts that made me chuckle, but not nearly enough of those to make this a recommended read.
I read this book out loud, and what fun that was, haha! I enjoyed the dialect this book was written in (though I also questioned myself, as I was reading it to the same kids I trying to teach proper grammar to... haha). There were some very fun little adventures in here, described vibrantly. The dialogue was fun. The ending was a bit abrupt, it felt like, and the story itself was more of a meandering adventure than a plot. I don’t necessarily have anything against that, but I prefer books with s
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Tom Sawyer Abroad is t e r r i b l e. stars are for the other things in this 1918 compendium edition, including some funny speeches and essays and Tom Sawyer, Detective.
A tale of adventure as only Twain could write. It’s a must-read for any fan of classic literature!
begins:
chapter 1. tom seeks new adventures
do you reckon tom sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? i mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky jim free and tom got shot in the leg. no, he wasn't. it only just p'isoned him for more. that was all the effect it had. you see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and sh ...more
chapter 1. tom seeks new adventures
do you reckon tom sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? i mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky jim free and tom got shot in the leg. no, he wasn't. it only just p'isoned him for more. that was all the effect it had. you see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and sh ...more
First sentence: DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn’t. It only just p’isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had.
Premise/plot: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim (now free) accidentally have an adventure together--in a hot air balloon--that takes them halfway across the world to Africa. The trip has its dangers certainly. But Tom i ...more
Premise/plot: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim (now free) accidentally have an adventure together--in a hot air balloon--that takes them halfway across the world to Africa. The trip has its dangers certainly. But Tom i ...more
A short tale but really a gem of one, and somehow I missed it in my early reading career. I had to read the ending twice before it sank in. This book really highlights the differences between knowledge (book learning) versus experience (life learning). I love the way Twain has Tom try to explain something he knows, like how maps work, what mirages are, and the use of metaphor, and then either Huck or Jim and sometimes both rebut from their experiences that say otherwise. Both make a lot of sense
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Tom, Huck, and Jim are swept up in a futuristic air balloon and whisked across the ocean to Arabia, where they tour the Sahara.
This book is a complete break from "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn," two great works whose stature as literary milestones don't prevent them from being vastly entertaining. This sequel begins very well, but goes off the rails just about the time the boys go up in the air. Mark Twain's great humor peeks through often, most notably in some entertaining debates among the ...more
This book is a complete break from "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn," two great works whose stature as literary milestones don't prevent them from being vastly entertaining. This sequel begins very well, but goes off the rails just about the time the boys go up in the air. Mark Twain's great humor peeks through often, most notably in some entertaining debates among the ...more
Remembered why I enjoyed Mark Twain's writing so much...the description of Tom's frustration and disgust with Jim and Huck's misinterpretations made me laugh out loud.
Very quick listen. Norman Dietz was narrator and did a fine job. ...more
Very quick listen. Norman Dietz was narrator and did a fine job. ...more
Funny, quick, who wouldn't want friends like Jim and Huck? Sure Twain was inspired by Verne -- reads like a story Tom and Huck invented together, each struggling to gain advantage. Tall tale, yet paced much better than Huck Finn.
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Cute at times but mostly pointless
Oct 16, 2019
Amber
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
read-in-2019,
classiques
Did you guys know that there are four books in the Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn saga? Well, five, if you count the unfinished story….
I think that most people have read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn here in the States, because it’s a pretty common required reading in high school English. Pop culture (and Disney World) itself made me well aware of Tom Sawyer and his fence-painting, treasure-seeking shenanigans. But I wasn’t aware of Tom Sawyer Abroad or the fourth book, Tom Sawyer, Detective, until e ...more
I think that most people have read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn here in the States, because it’s a pretty common required reading in high school English. Pop culture (and Disney World) itself made me well aware of Tom Sawyer and his fence-painting, treasure-seeking shenanigans. But I wasn’t aware of Tom Sawyer Abroad or the fourth book, Tom Sawyer, Detective, until e ...more
Mrs. Messerole
Honors English II
March 7th, 2019
Aerial Bochmann
Tom Sawyer: Seeing The World
Refusing to be outdone gets you places, and Tom Sawyer a prime example. In Tom Sawyer's Abroad, Mark Twain tells the story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn exploring the world trapped in a futuristic hot air balloon. They manage to travel from The Mississippi River to The Great Pyramids of Giza. This book is an adventure fiction novel narrated by Huck.
The book starts with a mysterious man who comes to T ...more
Honors English II
March 7th, 2019
Aerial Bochmann
Tom Sawyer: Seeing The World
Refusing to be outdone gets you places, and Tom Sawyer a prime example. In Tom Sawyer's Abroad, Mark Twain tells the story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn exploring the world trapped in a futuristic hot air balloon. They manage to travel from The Mississippi River to The Great Pyramids of Giza. This book is an adventure fiction novel narrated by Huck.
The book starts with a mysterious man who comes to T ...more
Why I read even the less-popular Twain:
"It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says -
"'Yes, the little ones does."
Likewise:
I thought he must be losing his mind. But no, he was in real earnest, and went right on, perfectly ca’m.
“A crusade is a war to recover the Holy Land from the paynim.”
“Which Holy Land?”
“Why, the Holy Land—there ain’t but one.”
“What do we want of it?”
“Why, can’t you understand? It’s in the hands of the pay ...more
"It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says -
"'Yes, the little ones does."
Likewise:
I thought he must be losing his mind. But no, he was in real earnest, and went right on, perfectly ca’m.
“A crusade is a war to recover the Holy Land from the paynim.”
“Which Holy Land?”
“Why, the Holy Land—there ain’t but one.”
“What do we want of it?”
“Why, can’t you understand? It’s in the hands of the pay ...more
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also work ...more
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also work ...more
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