Books Tell You Why, Inc.

Near Fine condition without dust-jacket. Book is brown cloth with gilt lettering and a faux leather spine.

Tom Sawyer and his best friend, Huck Finn, confront the endless possibilities of childhood in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, a Mississippi river town in the antebellum South. Days are spent in such diverse activities as whitewashing fences, swearing oaths in blood, and getting lost in dark caves. But below the innocent surface lurk the darker realities of the cruelty, hypocrisy and foolishness of the adult world; 8vo; FSA.