《汤姆・索亚历险记》简介：

小说描写的是以汤姆・索亚为首的一群孩子天真浪漫的生活。他们为了摆脱枯燥无味的功课、虚伪的教义和呆板的生活环境，作出了种种的冒险经历。

《汤姆・索亚历险记》摘录：

He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to starboard and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance—for he was personating the Big Missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water. He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined, so he had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane-deck giving the orders and executing them: