St. Petersburg

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fictional town literary setting

St. Petersburg is the fictional Mississippi River town that serves as the central backdrop for Mark Twain’s classic novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

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Label Occurrences
St. Petersburg canonical 4

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional town ⓘ
literary setting ⓘ
appearsIn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ⓘ
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ⓘ
Tom Sawyer Abroad ⓘ
Tom Sawyer, Detective ⓘ
associatedWithCharacter Aunt Polly ⓘ
Becky Thatcher ⓘ
Huckleberry Finn ⓘ
Injun Joe ⓘ
Sid Sawyer ⓘ
Tom Sawyer ⓘ
centralSettingOf The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ⓘ
countryInFiction United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
createdBy Mark Twain ⓘ
creatorName Mark Twain ⓘ
fictionalStatus fictional ⓘ
fictionalUniverse Tom Sawyer universe ⓘ
surface form: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn stories
genreContext American literature ⓘ
hasLandmark Jackson's Island ⓘ
surface form: Jackson’s Island (nearby island)

cave near the town ⓘ
church ⓘ
graveyard ⓘ
school ⓘ
languageOfWork English ⓘ
literaryPeriod 19th-century American literature ⓘ
locatedOn Mississippi River ⓘ
modeledOn Hannibal, Missouri ⓘ
narrativeFunction depicts small-town life along the Mississippi River ⓘ
stateInFiction Missouri ⓘ
timeSetting mid-19th century ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tom Sawyer universe → primarySetting → St. Petersburg ⓘ
Aunt Polly's house → locatedInFiction → St. Petersburg ⓘ
St. Petersburg schoolhouse → locatedInFictionalTown → St. Petersburg ⓘ
St. Petersburg graveyard → locatedInFictionalUniverse → St. Petersburg ⓘ