The adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: Mark Twain ; foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, E.L. Doctorow ; afterword, Albert E. Stone.
Series: The Oxford Mark Twain
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Runaway children -- Fiction; Child witnesses -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.