The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
New Edition
ISBN13: 9780199536566ISBN10: 0199536562
Paperback,
256 pages
Jul 2008,
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Description
In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines 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, and 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, the novel also raises questions about identity, and about attitudes to class and race. Above all, Twain's study of childhood brings into focus emergent notions of individual and literary maturity.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Features
- 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
About the Author(s)
Mark Twain
Edited by Peter Stoneley, Professor in the School of English and American Literature, University of Reading
