Volume 1 Les enfants de tante Polly Tom Sawyer est né sur les rives du fleuve Mississipi. Il a le sens de l’amitié et le goût de la liberté : il marche toujours pieds nus, se débrouille pour faire l'école buissonnière et rejoindre son meilleur ami : Huckleberry Finn, un orphelin vagabond. Espiègle et farceur, il en fait voir de toutes les couleurs à sa tante Polly ! Pourtant, il se prend d’un intérêt soudain pour l’école avec l’arrivée d’une nouvelle élève : la jolie Becky.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.