Built out of the amusing and nostalgic memories of Mississippi from the youth of Mark Twain, this work presents Tom Sawyer, one of the most exuberant and restless characters in all of literature. And it is the idealism of the curiosity of this irrepressible lad and his confrontation with what we see through his eyes, in what we encounter through literature, of the young North American nation — that was then celebrating its first centenary — searching for himself in the mirror and finding out just who he is. A novel that has ever since charmed its readers down through time.