The Story of a Bad Boy

(1870)

A semi-autobiographical novel in which "Tom Bailey" is the juvenile hero. Critics have said that this novel contains the first realistic depiction of childhood in American fiction and prepared the ground for Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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