The Adventures of Tom SawyerNow he found out a new thing namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. An idyllic snapshot of a boys childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twains The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the authors work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with