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''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (published , with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a Cave , and playing Pirate s on the Mississippi River . One of the most famous incidents in the book describes how Tom persuades his friends to do a boring, hateful chore for him: Whitewash ing (i.e., painting) a fence. (Compare the article on Stone Soup .) PUBLISHED AND FILMED VERSIONS Sales of ''Tom Sawyer'' were lukewarm at first. It initially sold less than a third as many copies as Twain's '' Innocents Abroad '', which sold about 70,000 copies during that time period. By the time of Twain's death, however, ''Tom Sawyer'' was both an American classic and a Bestseller . Tom Sawyer also appears in three other Mark Twain books: # '' Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn '' ( 1885 ) # '' Tom Sawyer Abroad '' ( 1894 ) # '' Tom Sawyer, Detective '' ( 1896 ) Of these, ''Huckleberry Finn'', in which Tom Sawyer is only a minor character, is considered to have, by far, the most literary merit. ''Tom Sawyer'' is generally viewed as more of a youth-oriented adventure story. Film The story of Tom Sawyer has been made into a Motion Picture several times. The first was in 1917 , starring Jack Pickford as Tom, and the most recent Disney 's 1995 Tom And Huck . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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