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Written by Mark Twain - Audio book performed by Garrick Hagon - Abridged Fiction - 4 COMPACT DISCS - 5 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (July 2005)

Two of Twain’s great classics are combined here, adding to Naxos AudioBooks’ now well established collection of box sets.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the story of a boy’s adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over a hundred years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, finds fun, excitement, and buried treasure, along the shores of the great river.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Floating down the Mississippi on their raft, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, find life filled with excitement and the spirit of adventure. Join Huck and Jim and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they come up against low-down thieves and murderers whilst being chased by Huck’s evil, drunken father who is after Huck’s treasure. It is a trip you that you’ll never tire of.

About the Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens ('Mark Twain'), was born in Florida, Missouri November 30th 1835. A printer first, and afterwards a Mississippi pilot, he adopted his pseudonym from a well-known call of the man sounding the river in shallow places (Mark Twain meaning ’by the mark two fathoms’). In 1861 he tried silver-mining in Nevada; next edited for two years the Virginia City Enterprise; in 1864 moved to San Francisco. In 1867 he visited France, Italy and Palestine, gathering material for his Innocents Abroad (1869), which established his reputation as a humorist. He was afterwards an editor at Buffalo, New York, where he married Miss Langdon, a lady of wealth. Later he removed to Hartford Connecticut and joined a publishing firm which failed, but largely recouped his losses by lecturing and writing. He died 21st April 1910. Among his books are Tom Sawyer (1876), A Tramp Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, More Tramps Abroad, What is Man (1910).