The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain. The Albatross 1947

Arnoldo mondadori editore The albatross modern continental library 289 pagine Libro in lingua inglese Numero 1622 della serie Serie arancione: opere satiriche ed umoristiche, racconti e novelle In condizioni molto buone con sovracoperta Dalla seconda di copertina: This book is to American literature what Kipling’s Stalky And Son is to English literature. Originally intended for children but soon adopted as an antidote to pessimism by thei parents, this book records the adventures of two boys in the middle-west. Their fantastic enterprises, thei trials and scrapes recall the essence of childhood, and, as in all Mark Twain’s works, there is a rich vein of humor running through the story. The author manages to infuse Tom and his boon companion Huck Finn with the breath of life so that they are characters about whom one can read and read, for this is a book to treasure and to keep as an endless source of amusement and joy.