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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
P R E F A C E
MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or
two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were
schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but
not from an individual-he is a combination of the characteristics of
three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of
architecture.