Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer'in Maceraları

The novel takes place in an unspecified period in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River. However, the reader may conclude from the presence of black slaves in the households that the story takes place in the 1830s or 1840s. In this small town where everyone knows everyone, where adults work together to educate and discipline children, is everyone what they seem? The novel perfectly reflects the hypocrisy of human nature, selfishness, fondness for material possessions, and the small-town spirit of the American countryside. Twain, while recounting the adventures of Tom and his friends, who is kind-hearted but always in search of mischief, in a realistic language, also destroys the usual well-behaved and exemplary child image. Perhaps the secret of the work's appeal to readers of all ages for generations is that it reminds us how the mind of a child works; lies the invaluable value of teleporting suddenly from the adult world to childhood.