Welcome to Raven's Readings. I'll be reading from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published in 1876 by Mark Twain. It's set in 1840 along the Mississippi River, near the town of Hannibal, where Twain grew up. It's been praised as a literary masterpiece, and also criticized for the occasional use of the 'n-word' and the way that Injun Joe characterizes Native Americans. Disclaimer here, I will be reading it as is, all the words. Mark Twain, or rather Samuel Clements, was very much anti-slavery way back then, and his book does expose the prejudices of the time. That's all part of Tom's story.

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In these first chapters we will meet Tom, and his Aunt Polly, and some of the neighbourhood kids, Or should I say victims - Tom is quite the little businessman.

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