The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete


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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER



BY MARK TWAIN

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

















CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
Y-o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty
—Tom Practices Music—The Challenge—A Private Entrance

CHAPTER II.
Strong Temptations—Strategic Movements
—The Innocents Beguiled

CHAPTER III.
Tom as a General—Triumph and Reward
—Dismal Felicity—Commission and Omission

CHAPTER IV.
Mental Acrobatics—Attending Sunday—School
—The Superintendent—“Showing off”—Tom Lionized

CHAPTER V.
A Useful Minister—In Church—The Climax

CHAPTER VI.
Self-Examination—Dentistry—The Midnight Charm
—Witches and Devils—Cautious Approaches—Happy Hours

CHAPTER VII.
A Treaty Entered Into—Early Lessons—A Mistake Made

CHAPTER VIII.
Tom Decides on his Course—Old Scenes Re-enacted

CHAPTER IX.
A Solemn Situation—Grave Subjects Introduced
—Injun Joe Explains

CHAPTER X.
The Solemn Oath—Terror Brings Repentance
—Mental Punishment

CHAPTER XI.
Muff Potter Comes Himself—Tom’s Conscience at Work

CHAPTER XII.
Tom Shows his Generosity—Aunt Polly Weakens

CHAPTER XIII.
The Young Pirates—Going to the Rendezvous
—The Camp—Fire Talk

CHAPTER XIV.
Camp-Life—A Sensation—Tom Steals Away from Camp

CHAPTER XV.
Tom Reconnoiters—Learns the Situation—Reports at Camp

CHAPTER XVI.
A Day’s Amusements—Tom Reveals a Secret—The Pirates
take a Lesson —A Night Surprise—An Indian War

CHAPTER XVII.
Memories of the Lost Heroes—The Point in Tom’s Secret

CHAPTER XVIII.
Tom’s Feelings Investigated—Wonderful Dream
—Becky Thatcher Overshadowed
—Tom Becomes Jealous—Black Revenge

CHAPTER XIX.
Tom Tells the Truth

CHAPTER XX.
Becky in a Dilemma
—Tom’s Nobility Asserts Itself

CHAPTER XXI.
Youthful Eloquence—Compositions by the
Young Ladies—A Lengthy Vision
—The Boy’s Vengeance Satisfied

CHAPTER XXII.
Tom’s Confidence Betrayed
—Expects Signal Punishment

CHAPTER XXIII. Old Muff’s Friends—Muff Potter in Court
—Muff Potter Saved

CHAPTER XXIV. Tom as the Village Hero—Days of Splendor
and Nights of Horror—Pursuit of Injun Joe

CHAPTER XXV. About Kings and Diamonds—Search for the Treasure
—Dead People and Ghosts

CHAPTER XXVI. The Haunted House—Sleepy Ghosts
—A Box of Gold—Bitter Luck

CHAPTER XXVII. Doubts to be Settled—The Young Detectives

CHAPTER XXVIII.
An Attempt at No. Two—Huck Mounts Guard

CHAPTER XXIX.
The Pic-nic—Huck on Injun Joe’s Track
—The “Revenge” Job—Aid for the Widow

CHAPTER XXX.
The Welchman Reports—Huck Under Fire—The Story Circulated
—A New Sensation—Hope Giving Way to Despair

CHAPTER XXXI.
An Exploring Expedition—Trouble Commences
—Lost in the Cave—Total Darkness—Found but not Saved

CHAPTER XXXII.
Tom tells the Story of their Escape
—Tom’s Enemy in Safe Quarters

CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Fate of Injun Joe—Huck and Tom Compare Notes
—An Expedition to the Cave—Protection Against Ghosts
—“An Awful Snug Place”—A Reception at the Widow Douglas’s

CHAPTER XXXIV.
Springing a Secret—Mr. Jones’ Surprise a Failure

CHAPTER XXXV.
A New Order of Things—Poor Huck—New Adventures Planned





ILLUSTRATIONS

Tom Sawyer

Tom at Home

Aunt Polly Beguiled

A Good Opportunity

Who’s Afraid

Late Home

Jim

'Tendin’ to Business

Ain’t that Work?

Cat and Toys

Amusement

Becky Thatcher

Paying Off

After the Battle

"Showing Off"

Not Amiss

Mary

Tom Contemplating

Dampened Ardor

Youth

Boyhood

Using the “Barlow"

The Church

Necessities

Tom as a Sunday-School Hero    

The Prize

At Church

The Model Boy

The Church Choir

A Side Show

Result of Playing in Church

The Pinch-Bug

Sid

Dentistry

Huckleberry Finn

Mother Hopkins

Result of Tom’s Truthfulness

Tom as an Artist

Interrupted Courtship

The Master

Vain Pleading

Tail Piece

The Grave in the Woods

Tom Meditates

Robin Hood and his Foe

Death of Robin Hood

Midnight

Tom’s Mode of Egress

Tom’s Effort at Prayer

Muff Potter Outwitted

The Graveyard

Forewarnings

Disturbing Muff’s Sleep

Tom’s Talk with his Aunt

Muff Potter

A Suspicious Incident

Injun Joe’s two Victims

In the Coils

Peter

Aunt Polly seeks Information

A General Good Time

Demoralized

Joe Harper

On Board Their First Prize

The Pirates Ashore

Wild Life

The Pirate’s Bath

The Pleasant Stroll

The Search for the Drowned

The Mysterious Writing

River View

What Tom Saw

Tom Swims the River

Taking Lessons

The Pirates’ Egg Market

Tom Looking for Joe’s Knife    

The Thunder Storm

Terrible Slaughter

The Mourner

Tom’s Proudest Moment

Amy Lawrence

Tom tries to Remember

The Hero

A Flirtation

Becky Retaliates

A Sudden Frost

Counter-irritation

Aunt Polly

Tom justified

The Discovery

Caught in the Act

Tom Astonishes the School

Literature

Tom Declaims

Examination Evening

On Exhibition

Prize Authors

The Master’s Dilemma

The School House

The Cadet

Happy for Two Days

Enjoying the Vacation

The Stolen Melons

The Judge

Visiting the Prisoner

Tom Swears

The Court Room

The Detective

Tom Dreams

The Treasure

The Private Conference

A King; Poor Fellow!

Business

The Ha’nted House

Injun Joe

The Greatest and Best

Hidden Treasures Unearthed

The Boy’s Salvation

Room No. 2

The Next Day’s Conference

Treasures

Uncle Jake

Buck at Home

The Haunted Room

"Run for Your Life"

McDougal’s Cave

Inside the Cave

Huck on Duty

A Rousing Act

Tail Piece

The Welchman

Result of a Sneeze

Cornered

Alarming Discoveries

Tom and Becky stir up the Town

Tom’s Marks

Huck Questions the Widow

Vampires

Wonders of the Cave

Attacked by Natives

Despair

The Wedding Cake

A New Terror

Daylight

"Turn Out” to Receive Tom and Becky

The Escape from the Cave

Fate of the Ragged Man

The Treasures Found

Caught at Last

Drop after Drop

Having a Good Time

A Business Trip

"Got it at Last!”

Tail Piece

Widow Douglas

Tom Backs his Statement

Tail Piece

Huck Transformed

Comfortable Once More

High up in Society

Contentment





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