Adventures of Tom Sawyer; by Mark Twain II.

It is very unlikely anyone over ten needs an introduction to Tom Sawyer and his adventures - and especially the way he got his friends to paint the fence for him, clamouring for the privilege, while he took it easy.

Mark Twain was no simpleton, at that, and managed to teach a lesson in that story about fence painting, about how capitalism and enterprise works - it is about getting others enthusiastic about manual hard work, by some spiel or other, while one then has time to manage, invent, profit, and so forth.

The introduction to his autobiography was unforgettable.