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The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Stoneley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Sawyer, Tom.
- Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character).
- Runaway children--Fiction.
- Runaway children.
- Child witnesses--Fiction.
- Child witnesses.
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Mississippi River Valley--Fiction.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Missouri--Fiction.
- Missouri.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 207 p.
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer, resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious, has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination. -;'Tom was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, and the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.'In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark ogaincombines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial, Tom engages readers of all ages. He has longbeen a defining figure in the American cultural imagination.Alongside the charm and the excitement, Twain raises serious questions about community, race, and the past. Above all, the book invites discussion of the way in which childhood is invoked to counter the uncomfortable truths of the adult world. -
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxviii]-xxxii).
- ISBN:
- 1-281-76984-3
- 9786611769840
- 0-19-151757-7
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