Mark Twain · 1876 · river

Mark Twain's 1876 novel of boyhood on the Mississippi. In the sleepy town of St. Petersburg - drawn from Twain's own Hannibal, Missouri - Tom Sawyer whitewashes a fence, witnesses a graveyard murder, runs off to play pirate on Jackson's Island, and is lost with Becky in the depths of McDougal's Cave, where he corners the killer Injun Joe and finds a buried fortune.

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   St. Petersburg

   The drowsy Mississippi river town, modeled on Twain's Hannibal, where Tom schemes his way out of chores, courts Becky Thatcher, and witnesses a murder in the graveyard by night.

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   Jackson's Island

   The wooded island downstream where Tom, Huck and Joe run off to live as pirates, and return to astonish the town by attending their own funeral.

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   McDougal's Cave

   The labyrinth of passages where Tom and Becky are lost for days and Tom comes face to face with Injun Joe - and later returns to find the hidden gold.