The adventures of Tom Sawyer /
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| Author / Creator: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. |
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| Edition: | New ed. |
| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 207 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187905 |
| Summary: | 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, resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious, has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination. -;'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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 207 pages). |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxii). |
| ISBN: | 9780191517570 0191517577 9780192806826 0192806823 9780192719997 0192719998 1281769843 9781281769848 9786611769840 6611769846 |