"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", by Mark Twain, is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)....