About the book
Set along the Mississippi River in the 1830s and 1840s, Mark Twain's novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Missouri, a fictional town based on Hannibal, where Twain grew up. Tom Sawyer, an orphan of about twelve, lives with his Aunt Polly and half brother Sid, often skips school, yet is rarely in anyone's bad graces for long. Ordered to whitewash a fence as punishment, he persuades the neighborhood boys to pay him for the privilege of doing the job. He falls for Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and runs with Huckleberry Finn, the vagrant boy the others envy. A commercial failure at first, it went on to outsell all of Twain's other works in his lifetime.
Richard Branson included it in his list of 65 books to read in a lifetime.
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Recommended by Richard Branson (Founder/Virgin Group)
Ovidiu Drugan (Owner/Set Sail Nautic School)
Question:What books had the biggest impact on you? (perhaps changed the way you see things, dramatically changed your career path)
Answer:
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Write It Down, Make It Happen – Henriette Anne Klauser
- Two years vacations – Jules Verne (and all the well known books) – navigation & cast away story
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
- Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (and Tom Sawyer) – river expedition
- The Foundation Cycle – Isaac Asimov
- War books – Sven Hassel – changed the way I see the army, conflicts, war
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – any crime comes with inner suffering so better not do it
- Nansen, Kon-Tiki, Expedition Ra – all expedition books form north pole to across the oceans with ships or rafts
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