flickr.com/photos/crackdogThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which Mark Twain published in 1876, recounts the adventures of a young boy growing up in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the banks of the mighty Mississippi.These adventures include: tricking his pals into whitewashing a fence, releasing a bug in church, wooing the beauteous Becky Thatcher, getting lost in a cave, searching for buried treasure, running away from home to play pirates, attending his own funeral
