This is a beautifully-designed new edition of Mark Twain's classic THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER "The hero is one of the most endearing in literature." — Daily Telegraph "Twain shares a talent for well-observed caricature with Dickens... adventure, social commentary and good humour runs through his fiction." — Sunday Express --Sunday Express MARK TWAIN's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Twain worked first as a printer and then as a pilot on Mississippi steamboats. Twain later worked as a prospector, a journalist and a publisher. Twain wrote many books but his most famous works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Twain died in 1910.