Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of Tom Sawyer Abroad includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword from the Publisher.Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn have both ranged the length of the Mississippi-but those adventures were nothing compared to this!Tom and Huck go to see the unveiling of an experimental airship...only to be kidnapped by the ship's murderous inventor, who plans to fly around the world and then crash in flames-taking Tom and Huck with him! When the madman falls overboard in an Atlantic storm, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are trapped on an out-of-control airship, headed through the dangers of the ocean, toward the perils of the endless Sahara!
The professor had been quiet all this time, as if he was asleep; but he broke loose now, and he was mighty bitter. He says something like this: "Idiots! They said it wouldn't go; and they wanted to examine it, and spy around and get the secret of it out of me. But I beat them. Nobody knows the secret but me. Nobody knows what makes it move but me; and it's a new power? |
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