Pegasus Abridged Classics is a series of classic books comprising of interesting stories written by various authors of well repute. In these books, classic stories have been given in abbreviated and simplified form. The language and the style of the stories have been restructured so that young readers can understand them well and without difficulty. Beautiful illustrations and age-wise gradation make the books more amicable. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn.