Tom Sawyer, Detective (Dream Classics) E-Book

Dream Classics

• Herausgeber: Adrien Devret
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.with HTML Table Of ContentsBe sure to check out our other books available !

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Table of Contents

Tom Sawyer, Detective

Mark Twain

Chapter 1 AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK

Chapter 2 JAKE DUNLAP

Chapter 3 A DIAMOND ROBBERY

Chapter 4 THE THREE SLEEPERS

Chapter 5 A TRAGEDY IN THE WOODS

Chapter 6 PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS

Chapter 7 A NIGHT’S VIGIL

Chapter 8 TALKING WITH THE GHOST

Chapter 9 FINDING OF JUBITER DUNLAP

Chapter 10 THE ARREST OF UNCLE SILAS

Chapter 11 TOM SAWYER DISCOVERS THE MURDERERS

Tom Sawyer, Detective

Mark Twain

Published: 1896Categorie(s): Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Chapter1 AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK

Note: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts—even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some details, but only a couple of them are important ones. — M. T.

WELL, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom’s uncle Silas’s farm in Arkansaw. The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming. It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is. Yes, and it sets him to sighing and saddening around, and there’s something the matter with him, he don’t know what. But anyway, he gets out by himself and mopes and thinks; and mostly he hunts for a lonesome place high up on the hill in the edge of the woods, and sets there and looks away off on the big Mississippi down there a-reaching miles and miles around the points where the timber looks smoky and dim it’s so far off and still, and everything’s so solemn it seems like everybody you’ve loved is dead and gone, and you ‘most wish you was dead and gone too, and done with it all.