The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Resource Information

The work The adventures of Tom Sawyer represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Statement of responsibility

Mark Twain ; foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, E.L. Doctorow ; afterword, Albert E. Stone

Creator

• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Subject

• Bildungsromans
• Boys
• Boys -- Fiction
• Child witnesses
• Child witnesses -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Mississippi River Valley
• Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction
• Missouri
• Missouri -- Fiction
• Runaway children
• Runaway children -- Fiction
• Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)
• Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Action and adventure fiction

Genre

• Bildungsromans
• Fiction
• Action and adventure fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Works

Additional physical form

Also issued online.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.4

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS1306

LC item number

.A1 1996

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Oxford Mark Twain