The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Owc) * (2008)

Peter Stoneley's wide-ranging introduction looks at the genesis of the text, its historical reception, and recent criticism, paying particular attention to how Twain's invocation of an American pastoral relates to contemporary and present-day anxieties
over modernity, 'progress', and racial diversity.
*Uses the first American edition text.
*Notes gloss literary allusions and other references.
*Up to date bibliography

New to this edition

*Introduction by Peter Stoneley.
*Much fuller notes.
*Up-to-date bibliography.
*New text: the first American edition replaces the current 1926 reprint.

'Tom was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, and the envy of the young...There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.'

In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark ogaincombines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of
adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial, Tom engages readers of all ages. He has long been a
defining figure in the American cultural imagination.

Alongside the charm and the excitement, Twain raises serious questions about community, race, and the past. Above all, the book invites discussion of the way in which childhood is invoked to counter the uncomfortable truths of the adult world.

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Readership: Anyone interested in this classic of American literature, and students of American literature, Mark Twain, children's literature