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Mark Twain introduces us to the quintessential boy in trouble in his classic novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Summary of the Book Tom Sawyer is in trouble. Correction: Tom Sawyer is always in trouble. He’s neck deep in mischief all year long and he’s always trying to fool his friends into getting him out of it. He tricks them into painting a fence he was supposed to take care of, and he makes them think he’ll reward them for it. If you’re on the Mississippi and there’s any scent of trouble somewhere, be sure that good old Tom Sawyer is at the very heart of it. So when he witnesses a murder, he runs away, scared. He decides to be a pirate and then has to witness his own funeral. What’s a boy to do when his hands are filled with so many adventures anyway? And then there’s the dastardly Injun Joe, who looks like he could tear Tom limb from limb! Can Tom get away from all this trouble in one piece, or will his fake funeral turn out to be a real one after all? Find out in Mark Twain’s greatest classic! About Mark Twain Mark Twain was the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer known best for this novel and its sequel: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain has also written a little known historical novel based on the fictionalized events of the life and times of Joan of Arc. The best known film adaptation of Tom Sawyer is the 1938 classic starring Tommy Kelly.