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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Page from an 1884 edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
Becky Thatcher
fictional character
Becky Thatcher, fictional character, Tom Sawyer’s sweetheart in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain.
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