Tom Sawyer

Plot Summery:

One night , Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are buring a cat in the cemetery. There's a superstition that says by doing this, your wartswill disapper... There, hidden in the bushes they see how Indian JOe kills the local doctor. To carry out his crime, Joe, a vilent and cunning man, uses the knife of his accomplice Muff Potter, the local drunk. Then he puts the weapon in Muff's hand. Muff is lying unconscious after the fight, so he doesn't see what Indian JOe has doen. When the drunk wakes up, Joe makes him believe that he has committed the crime, and the following day Muff is arrested. Will TOm reveal the truth?

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The author spent his childhood in a little town next to the river Mississippi, and he left school when he was 12 years old. He was typographer, a steamboat pilot, and a gold digger, before becoming the most famous American writer of his time.

Writer: in 1870, Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon. Olivia, a sweet and refined lady, became his literary adviser. She controlled the impulsive style of her husband's writing, eliminating from his text the more ''direct'' expressions which came from his random and intense life full of jokes, parties and fights. TIme passed, and more books appeared: A Hard Life, The Adventure of Tom Swayer, The Adventures of Huchleberry Fin.. By then everybody knew Mark Twain. But little by little, the America described in his novels disappeared, to give way to a different country rich, moralistic and ''civilised'' . 

When Mark Twain died in 1910 the America of the pioneers and the mythical land of freedom called ''the frontier'' had disappeared forever.

1835: Samuel Langherne Clemens is born in Florida, Missouri (USA)

1839: The family moves to Hannibal, a town on the banks of the Mississippi.

1847: His father dies and Sam leaves school to work as a typographer in several printer's from New York to Philadelphia.

1857: He decides to become a steamboat pilot.

1861: The American Civil War begins. Sam goes West.

1862: For a short time he works as a gold digger. He writes articles for a smal newspaper in Virgina City (California)

1863: He begins to sign his articles under the pseudonym Mark Twain and works as a reporter on the Call, in San Francisco.

1867: He visits Europe and the Holy Land

1869: His book The innocents Abroad is a great success

1870: He marries Olivia Langdon with whom he has a son that dies at a very early age and two daughters.

1876: The Aventures of Tom Sawyer is published

1884: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

1894: After a disastrous investment, he loses all his money. To rai9se more money he goes on a tour giving conferences all round the world.

1904: His wife Olivia dies.

1910: Mark Twain dies in Redding