The Adventures of Tom Soyer

"The Adventures of Tom Soyer" by Mark Twain is a brilliant masterpiece of world literature, which has become the absolute standard of adventure prose and the real hymn of unthinkable childhood. Written with incredible humor, warmth and light irony, this book immediately carries the reader into a world where every day promises great discoveries, and the ordinary plot can become a source of countless wealth. The story takes place in the quiet provincial town of St. Petersburg on the shore of the powerful Mississippi. The main character is Tom Soyer, a twelve-year-old orphan, a sorvane and unresolved fantasy, who is raised by a strict but loving aunt of Polly. Tom organically does not tolerate school boredom, church prophecies and exemplary behavior, but has the genius talent to find adventures on his head. Together with his faithful friend, the homeless wolf of Hegelberry Finn, Tom lives a whole series of incredible events. They escape to the homeless island to become pirates, secretly visit the night cemetery where they become random witnesses of the real crime, fall in love with the beautiful Beckie Tatcher and go to the search for real pirate treasures in the confused labyrinths of the dark cave. Mark Twain has managed to create a surprisingly living and untemporary book. Behind the facade of the fun boy's shops is a thin satiric on the chancellor and prejudice of the provincial society. This is a novel about adulthood, about the first love, about the emerging concepts of honor, loyalty and courage, when yesterday's horror goes against his own fear to save the innocent. “About what the book is in three words: Childhood, Chalesty, Treasures. **Who to read:** Children – to inspire for great movements and games, adults – as the best and most effective remedy for tiredness, capable of bringing them back for a couple of nights into the sun-filled world of sincere childhood joy.