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The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain ; edited by Lucy Rollin.
LIBRA PS1306.A2 R65 2006 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Series:
- Broadview editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Sawyer, Tom.
- Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character).
- Mississippi River Valley--Fiction.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Child witnesses--Fiction.
- Child witnesses.
- Missouri--Fiction.
- Missouri.
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- "This novel of childhood is set in fictional St. Petersburg, a town based on Mark Twains's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain's recounting of Tom Sawyer's many escapades is by turns nostalgic, satiric, wise, and hilarious. While this novel is often considered mainly as the precursor to Twain's great work The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it is abundantly worth considering for its own deft and loving transformation of autobiography into fiction." "In addition to the full text of the novel based on the first American edition, complete with a selection of the original illustrations by True Williams, this Broadview edition provides a wide range of appendices that place the novel in the context of 1840s rural America as well as 1870s literary America. These include materials on the composition and marketing of Tom Sawyer, selections from other "boy books" of the period, and historical documents relating to temperance, children's literature, and schools."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Mark Twain : a brief chronology
- A note on the text and illustrations
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Appendix A. Composition, marketing, and reviews of The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Appendix B. Twain's memories of Hannibal
- Appendix C. Bad boys and boy books
- Appendix D.A small-town American childhood in the 1840s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-315).
- ISBN:
- 1551116529
- 9781551116525
- OCLC:
- 65948394
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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