The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. "Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain." ? Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a beloved classic American children's story of a boy growing up along the Mississippi river.