Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Original Text Edition
Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Original Text Edition

Author: Alan Gribben

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1603062408

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This coming-of-age story captures a vanished world of outdoor action and introduces Mark Twain’s two most enduring literary characters, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. In a novel that Twain termed a “hymn to boyhood,” Tom and Huck fish and swim in the Mississippi River, search for buried treasure, and hide in a haunted house. Tom Sawyer falls for pretty Becky Thatcher, tricks his pals into painting a fence for him, and stages an elaborate prank on the schoolmaster. Around the edges of this idyllic boy-life, however, loom dangerous events in the fictional village of St. Petersburg: Tom and Huck witness a midnight murder in a graveyard, the killer escapes from the courtroom while Tom is testifying, Tom and Becky become lost in a labyrinthine cave, and two sinister villains plot robbery and revenge against a wealthy widow. This Original Text Edition faithfully follows the wording of the first edition, and the editor supplies a historical and literary introduction as well as a guide to Twain’s satirical targets

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781603062411

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Perennially listed among the classics of American literature, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) broke new ground by allowing a teenage boy to narrate his own story. The son of a cruel town drunkard, Huck Finn vividly describes his friendship with Tom Sawyer, his resolve to run away from his abusive father, and his decision to join a runaway slave named Jim in a search for freedom. Jim and Huck's days and nights on a raft floating down the Mississippi River form one of the most evocative stories of interracial bonding ever written, and the bizarre characters they encounter in their journey are memorably sketched. Though comical in places, ultimately the book warns about the price of immoral social conformity. Editor Alan Gribben explains the historical and literary context of Twain's novel and vigorously defends it against the many critics who fault its language, relationships, and conclusion. Gribben also supplies a helpful guide to Twain's satirical targets. This Original Text Edition faithfully follows the wording of the first edition.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 135th Anniversary Edition
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 135th Anniversary Edition

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0520946324

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This is Mark Twain's first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the "200 rattling pictures' Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams. This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of original documents by Mark Twain, including several letters in his inimitable voice about writing Tom Sawyer and about its original publication.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0520266110

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This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of Twain's hard-to-find letters and notes expressing his always-engaging opinions on the publication of Tom Sawyer.

The Spelling Bee
The Spelling Bee

Author: Catherine Nichols

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781402742699

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A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Tom Sawyer" in which Tom cheats during the spelling bee, but later realizes he must make things right.

Manga Classics: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Manga Classics: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Manga Classics

Published:

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a novel about a young boy growing up in the fictional small town of Hannibal, Missouri along the Mississippi River during the 1840s. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Life for Tom is a series of grand adventures that include his best friend "Huck" Finn, the love of his life Becky Thatcher, buried treasures, scoundrels, thieves and body snatchers. Manga Classics brings a brilliant new light to Mark Twain's very first novel that new readers will embrace and life-long fans will enjoy.

Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective
Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0520950615

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These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Both with the original illustrations by Dan Beard and A.B. Frost. "Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn’t. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of these once-celebrated but now little-known sequels to his own adventures. Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas and see some of the world’s greatest wonders.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition
Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition

Author: Alan Gribben

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1603062386

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Mark Twain’s two most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that he originally envisioned. Twain started writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn soon after finishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), but difficulties with the sequel took him eight years to resolve. Consequently his contemporary readers failed to view the volumes as the companion books he had intended. In the twentieth century, publishers, librarians, and academics continued to separate the two titles, with the result that they are seldom read sequentially even though they feature many of the same characters and their narratives open in the identical Mississippi River village, St. Petersburg. This Original Text Edition brings the stories back together and faithfully follows the wording of the first editions.