Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
$16.95, £9.95 paperback
978-0-520-23575-5
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288 pages, 5-3/8 x 8-1/2 inches, 163 b/w illustrations
April 2002, Available worldwide
Categories: Literary Studies; American Literature; Mark Twain; Fiction
April 2002, Available worldwide
Categories: Literary Studies; American Literature; Mark Twain; Fiction
"Each additional volume reaffirms our faith and celebration in this splendid series."—Nineteenth-Century Fiction
"Any academic who assigns another text rather than one of the . . . volumes now available in the Mark Twain Library owes the profession an apology if it can be found."—American Literature
"Handsome, readable and full of surprisesÉthe American classics that come to us from the Mark Twain Library are simply superb."—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"The Mark Twain Project of the University of California Press is reuniting Samuel Clemens's texts with the essential illustrations he commissioned for them, and the results are splendid: may the Twain never again be sundered!"—Cathleen Medwick, Vanity Fair
"If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have."—Michael Shelden, London Telegraph
"Any academic who assigns another text rather than one of the . . . volumes now available in the Mark Twain Library owes the profession an apology if it can be found."—American Literature
"Handsome, readable and full of surprisesÉthe American classics that come to us from the Mark Twain Library are simply superb."—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
"The Mark Twain Project of the University of California Press is reuniting Samuel Clemens's texts with the essential illustrations he commissioned for them, and the results are splendid: may the Twain never again be sundered!"—Cathleen Medwick, Vanity Fair
"If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have."—Michael Shelden, London Telegraph
This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, 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. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their cure for warts ("spunk water" and dead cats), Tom's puppy love for Becky Thatcher, the boys playing "pirate" on Jackson's Island.
This Mark Twain Library text is the only edition since the first (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 Mark Twain Library text is the only edition since the first (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.
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