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Ernest Riera Arbussà
Ernest Riera Arbussà is the author of Adulthood Rites, a compelling exploration of coming-of-age stories. His work often touches on themes of identity and the challenges of growing up.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
In the sleepy town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi in the 1840s, a clever, restless boy named Tom Sawyer is forever slipping the leash of his exasperated Aunt Polly. Whether he's tricking his friends into whitewashing a fence for him, playing pirate on a river island, or courting the pretty new girl Becky Thatcher, Tom lives for mischief and adventure.
But boyhood games turn deadly serious when Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn sneak into a graveyard at midnight and witness a murder. Bound by a blood oath of silence yet tormented by conscience, the boys are drawn into a chain of events involving a wrongly accused man, a vengeful killer, a hunt for buried treasure, and a terrifying ordeal in a vast underground cave.
Mark Twain's beloved 1876 classic captures the freedom, cruelty, and wonder of childhood along the American frontier. By turns funny, suspenseful, and sharply observed, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer remains one of the most enduring portraits of boyhood in all of literature.
A clever, mischievous boy hungry for adventure and glory.
A vengeful outcast whose crime the boys secretly witness.
The judge's daughter and Tom's sweetheart.
Tom's free-spirited, unschooled friend, the son of the town drunk.
Tom's loving but perpetually exasperated guardian.