书名：The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer汤姆·索亚历险记

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数980

作者：Mark Twain

出版社名称：Harper Collins Publisher

出版时间：2011

语种：英文
ISBN
：9780007420117

商品尺寸：11.2 x 2.1 x 17.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：288


The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
《汤姆·索亚历险记》是美国小说家马克·吐温1876年发表的代表作品，小说的故事发生在19世纪上半世纪美国密西西比河畔的一个普通小镇上。主人公汤姆·索亚天真活泼、敢于探险、追求自由，不堪忍受束缚个性、枯燥乏味的生活，幻想干一番英雄事业。适合英语专业学生及对经典英语文学作品感兴趣的读者。

推荐理由：
1.
美国小说家马克·吐温的代表作，以其浓厚的深具地方特色的幽默和对人物敏锐观察，一跃成为伟大的儿童文学作品，也是一首美国“黄金时代”的田园牧歌；
2.
小说的时代在南北战争前，写的虽是圣彼得堡小镇，但该镇某种程度上可以说是当时美国社会的缩影；
3.
小说通过主人公的冒险经历，对美国虚伪庸俗的社会习俗、伪善的宗教仪式和刻板陈腐的学校教育进行了讽刺和批判；
4
马克·吐温对儿童心理的观察精细入微，描写合情合理。读者阅读此书能够重新回味一下那些童真童趣时刻；

5.柯林斯经典系列，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解；
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轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。
The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in a small town along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the town of “St Petersburg”, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain grew up.


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“Now he found out a new thing
—namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”
An idyllic snapshot of a boy’s childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River,The Adventures of Tom Sawyeris said to be based on Twain’s own experiences. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, and town outcast, Huck Finn.  However, one night Huck and Tom witness the local vagabond, Injun Joe, commit a murder at the town graveyard and so begins their swift journey into adulthood. A coming-of-age tale, Tom’s adventures give a nostalgic portrayal of boyhood and it remains one of Twain’s most well-loved novels.




Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels areThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1885), the latter often called “The Great American Novel”.



“Tom!”
No answer.
“Tom!”
No answer.
“What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You Tom!”
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for “style,” not service





—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
“Well, I lay if I get hold of you I’ll —”
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
“I never did see the beat of that boy!”
She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and “jimpson” weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:
“Y-o-u-u Tom!”
There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
“There! I might ‘a’ thought of that closet. What you been doing in there?”
“Nothing.”
“Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?”
“I don’t know, aunt.”