English · Intermediate
Read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in Englishwith every sentence explained
Mark Twain · 1876
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About the book
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain was first published in 1876. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under children and young adult. It runs to about 69,700 words.
Pirates, buried treasure and one very mischievous boy.
Tom Sawyer lives with his long-suffering Aunt Polly in the sleepy town of St. Petersburg, on the banks of the Mississippi. He hates school, loves trouble and can talk his way out of almost anything — he even tricks his friends into paying him for the privilege of whitewashing a fence.
With his best friend Huckleberry Finn, the town's barefoot outcast, Tom plays at pirates, falls for new girl Becky Thatcher and dreams of buried gold. But one night in the graveyard, the two boys witness something terrible — and suddenly their games are real.
Funny, nostalgic and full of adventure, Mark Twain's 1876 classic captures the freedom of an American childhood and introduced two of literature's most famous boys.
- Author
- Mark Twain
- First published
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Children, Young Adult
- Length
- About 69,700 words
How it opens
No answer.
No answer.
“What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!”
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for “style,” not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
Reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
