The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback, illustrated edition)

This classic novel of childhood is set in fictional St. Petersburg, a town based on Mark Twain'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include materials on the composition and marketing of Tom Sawyer, selections from other "boy books" of the period, and historical documents relating to temperance, children's literature, and schools.

General

Imprint:	Broadview Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2006
Authors:	Mark Twain
Editors:	Lucy Rollin
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-55111-652-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	1-55111-652-9
Barcode:	9781551116525

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