Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer while he and his family were living in Hartford, Connecticut.
The novel has been in turn praised and censored, but its impact on American literature is undeniable, and so it is one of the most collectible novels of the 19th century.
Beyond the fact that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is fun to read, there is another reason for the novel's contemporary popularity: It introduces the character of Huck Finn who, with the publication of Twain's 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would become one of the greatest characters in American literature.
