“The next day I met Mark down by the old Call office,” Sawyer continued. “He walks up to me and puts both hands on my shoulders. ‘Tom,’ he says, ‘I’m going to write a book about a ...

Frontispiece from the first edition of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' 1876 ... like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged ...