TY  - BOOK
AU  - Twain,Mark
AU  - Mitchell,Lee Clark
TI  - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
SN  - 0192833898 (pbk)
AV  - PS1306 .T836 1993
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - Reissue. Originally published: 1993; Includes bibliography: p. xxxvii-xxxix; Introduction; Note on the text; Select bibliography; A chronology of Mark Twain; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Explanatory notes
N2  - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg - whether getting his friends to whitewash a fence for him, or escaping the demands of his vigilant Aunt Polly - have won him the hearts of generations. The very success of the novel has obscured its contradictions and the extent to which the author's response to contemporary cultural developments was a mixed one. Tom Sawyer is not only a deft comedy and a powerful celebration of childhood. It also reflects how Mark Twain was in the process of finding his distinctive voice, a voice with which he could express the conflicts he felt about coming of age in America
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