The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Robinson, W. T.; Palmer, Ruth; Twain, MarkFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Dalmatian Pr
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Summary
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" includes a Biographical Note, Preface, and Afterword by Keith Neilson.
Table of Contents
| The text of The adventures of Tom Sawyer | p. 1 |
| Backgrounds and contexts | p. 181 |
| [Autobiography] | p. 183 |
| Letter to Will Bowen, 6 February 1870 | p. 191 |
| The cave at Hannibal | p. 193 |
| Miss Clapp's school | p. 197 |
| The old-time school-discipline | p. 200 |
| Dissection of the dead | p. 201 |
| [The case against dissection] | p. 204 |
| The page that Becky tore? | p. 208 |
| Fire in a liquid form | p. 209 |
| Boy culture | p. 213 |
| [Mark Twain's Missouri] | p. 221 |
| The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief | p. 225 |
| The story of the good little boy who did not prosper | p. 228 |
| From Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters | p. 231 |
| Boy's manuscript | p. 239 |
| Correspondence on The adventures of Tom Sawyer | p. 253 |
| [Revisions inspired by Howells] | p. 260 |
| Criticism | p. 263 |
| [Review] | p. 265 |
| The composition and the structure of Tom Sawyer | p. 267 |
| The sanctioned rebel | p. 279 |
| Boy books, bad boy books, and The adventures of Tom Sawyer | p. 290 |
| Masculinity and the logic of sympathy in The adventures of Tom Sawyer | p. 306 |
| Why Mark Twain murdered Injun Joe - and will never be indicted | p. 332 |
| "200 rattling pictures" : True Williams and the imagetext of the first American edition of The adventures of Tom Sawyer | p. 353 |
| Mark Twain : a chronology | p. 379 |
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