Tom Sawyer

Name: Tom Sawyer
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ISBN: 9780393926033

ISBN-10: 0393926036

ISBN-13: 9780393926033

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mark Twain, Beverly Lyon Clark

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Description:

The text of this book is based on the first United States edition (1876). The backgrounds and contexts section provides students with the source materials cited by critics, along with lesser known but valuable contextual materials. Also included are seven critical interpretations of the novel with a chronology and bibliography.

Book details

List price: $16.25
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/18/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



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