The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Paperback / softback
by Mark Twain
Edited by Peter (Professor in the School of English and American Literature, University of Reading) Stoneley
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
'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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/06/2008
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- ISBN:9780199536566
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/06/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199536566
