Being well-behaved, sitting still, and having good table manners are simply a nightmare for the inseparable title characters, the orphan boy Tom Sawyer and the drifter Huckleberry Finn. For them, days and nights should be filled with freedom, fun, and adventure! And there is certainly no shortage of that in these two delightfully cheeky novels dedicated to his famous mischievous duo by the great Mark Twain (1835 - 1910). Not least, his unabashedly critical perspective and his playful mastery of the everyday language of the Southern states make Twain's novels timeless classics not only of youth literature but worldwide.