Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Name: Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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ISBN: 9780375756818

ISBN-10: 0375756817

ISBN-13: 9780375756818

Edition: 2001

Authors: Mark Twain, Frank Conroy, Mark Twain

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Tom Sawyer and his friends play truant from school and set off for an island near their home town. Here they decide to play pirates but their game is interrupted when they witness a murder. Tom has to grow up very quickly and do the right thing.

Book details

List price: $8.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

FRANK CONROY is the director of the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is also an accomplished jazz pianist.



The text of The adventures of Tom Sawyer


Backgrounds and contexts


[Autobiography]



Letter to Will Bowen, 6 February 1870



The cave at Hannibal


Miss Clapp's school



The old-time school-discipline



Dissection of the dead



[The case against dissection]


The page that Becky tore?


Fire in a liquid form



Boy culture



[Mark Twain's Missouri]



The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief



The story of the good little boy who did not prosper



From Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters



Boy's manuscript



Correspondence on The adventures of Tom Sawyer



[Revisions inspired by Howells]



Criticism


[Review]



The composition and the structure of Tom Sawyer



The sanctioned rebel



Boy books, bad boy books, and The adventures of Tom Sawyer



Masculinity and the logic of sympathy in The adventures of Tom Sawyer



Why Mark Twain murdered Injun Joe - and will never be indicted



"200 rattling pictures" : True Williams and the imagetext of the first American edition of The adventures of Tom Sawyer



Mark Twain : a chronology