Tom Sawyer
Sign in to savetitle character of the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Key facts
- First appearance
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Last appearance
- Tom Sawyer, Detective
- Created by
- Mark Twain
- Family
- Aunt Polly (aunt) , Sally Phelps (aunt) , Mary (cousin) , Sid (younger half-brother)
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Wikidata facts
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Creator
- Mark Twain
- Performer
- Jeff East
- Image
- Tom Sawyer 1876 frontispiece.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tom Sawyer
- date of birth
- 1833-00-00
- name
- Томас Сойер
- birth name
- Thomas Sawyer
- name in native language
- Tom Sawyer
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas "Tom" Sawyer (/ˈsɔː.jər/) is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896). He is around 12 to 13 years old.
Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse Hill, and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. It is set in the 1840s along the Mississippi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tom Sawyer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.