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湯姆．索耶（Tom Sawyer）是密西西比河畔最古靈精怪的小鬼頭，他和他的夥伴喬．哈浦爾（Joe Harper）和哈克．芬（Huckleberry Finn）的冒險事蹟總是驚動著聖彼得堡。湯姆總是喜歡惡作劇、鬼點子多、機靈而又狡黠，最為人所知的一段情節便是湯姆如何從無趣的籬笆粉刷工作中脫身，甚至讓一群孩子爭相替湯姆來完成這份工作。湯姆帶著他聰慧的腦袋，與夥伴在密西西比河畔四處探險玩起海盜遊戲、抓小蟲子、逗在意的女生注意，像是一個普通的夏日，卻也沒那麼尋常；故事的最後，在洞穴中，湯姆和他的朋友哈克發現了價值一萬兩千美元的寶藏。
而頑童歷險記則延續湯姆歷險記的結局，湯姆和哈克找到了一大筆寶藏，哈克被一位生活教養嚴厲的寡婦華珊小姐安置，但嶄新的衣服、文明的規矩卻令他坐立難安。於是哈克便從華珊小姐的家中逃出，再度與湯姆過著四處冒險的生活。酗酒成性的父親找上了哈克，覬覦他們所擁有的寶藏財產，將他強行擄走並虐待。華珊小姐的黑奴吉姆偶然聽聞主人想把他賣去「河的下游」，也就是更兇殘的奴隸主，因而規劃了逃亡。哈克得知後，便提議兩人一同行動......
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors.
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn—liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their exciting flight down the Mississippi aboard a raft, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. As Ernest Hemingway said of this glorious novel, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called
Huckleberry Finn
