The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Borders Classics)
Ann Arbor: Borders Classics, 2006. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Fine. Item #2355134
ISBN: 9781587264634
Reissue. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
337 pp. Drawn from Mark Twain's memories of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) has come to epitoize small-town boyhood. Scenes like Tom tricking other boys into whitewashing the fence or Tom, Huckleberry Finn, and Joe Harper floating down the river on a raft are now part of American Lore. Tom and Huck often expressed a desire to escape the confines of civilization, and in Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), Huck narrates their adventures crossing the Atlantic in a baloom. The boys, alone with Jim, the former slave, travel through the Sahara and the Near East, encountering Bedouins and lions before returning home. In Tom Sawyer, Dettective (1896), Twain adapted a seventeenth-century Danish murder case to nineteenth-century America and allowed Tom and Huck to play sleuths. A diamond robbery, a false accusation of murder, and a case of mistaken identity contribute to the convoluted plot.
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