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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain Library)
by: Mark Twain

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780520235755
ISBN: 0520235754
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 30, 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Sales Rank: 65785
Studio: University of California Press

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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.
This Mark Twain Library text is the only edition since the first (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the '200 rattling pictures' Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams.

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- The advantures of Tom Sawyer
I can't remember when I first read the adventures of Tom Sawyer. I also initially couldn't recall any details about the book. So I re-read the book. As I learned, Mark Twain grew up in a southern slave state. He also traveled to lots of places that helped him form the background of his novel.

After I read this book, something came to my mind, because I didn't have a similar kind of experience with a slave system. You can not have any idea how to handle this situation. As for me coming from the small and free island of Taiwan, it is shocking to me. From my point of view, America has the most equal society. How could it really happen is disconcerting. All men are created equal upon birth. Can anyone tell me why one is destined to be slave when they are born?

No matter how, it did happen the fact that we couldn't do anything about the slave system in that age. Anyway, the book was very ... Read More

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- the adventures of tom sawyer
tom sawyer is a young boy who always causes trouble. when he teams up with huckleberry finn the trouble doubles.tom is lazy and doesent like to work so he tricks every boy in town to make it sound like its a privlage. tom and huck decide that they are going to run away and be pirates. the town seaches the river and find their boat whih floated domn the river. after a week the town decided the boys were dead and held a funeral and tow snuk into to his house and the boys walked into the funeral. after the funeral the boys decided to be tresure hunters and find a treasure. they decided to search a hunted house before they find a treasure injuan joe finds it first. injuan joe runs away. tom and a girl named Becky get lost in a cave and find injuan joe in the cave. tom and becky get out of the cave and the town locked the cave shut. when he told them that injuan joe was in the cave the town opened it and injuan joe layed ... Read More

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- Tom Sawyer book is good
This book was really good. I like the adventure in it. The book was very exciting. It really kept my interest. This book made me realize what it would be like in the 1850s.

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- Great American Novel
This book works brilliantly on two levels. The first being a simple story of boyhood adventures the second as a subversive multi-layered literary masterpiece. You can see this dichotomy clearly from the other reviews on this book.

Mark Twain is able to write a seemingly straightforward adventure book that consistently questions and pokes fun at the conventional wisdom of 19th century America. He rips on the hypocrisy of Christianity, slavery, class structure and most of the widely accepted paradigms of American society.

I love his sense of irony and the subtleness of his ascerbic wit. My guess is that even when he wrote this book most of his readers did not understand the subtler messages he was conveying. Good for him, otherwise it probably would not have been the best seller it was.

I urge the readers of this book to really take a look at the subtext. You will find a ... Read More

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